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Desolation Of Eden · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 14 OF 82
Groove F -- Part F
39 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART I
PART L
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesAPTPAGL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desolation Of Eden on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:52
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-53, hi-hat through bars 54-68 and snare through bars 69-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 101-103, 105-107 and 109-111, and 1 more place -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    101                              102
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |xxx-----x-----------------------|----x-x-x-x-------x-----x-x-----|
Desolation Of Eden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- AP, AF (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Desolation Of Eden?

92 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Desolation Of Eden hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Desolation Of Eden?

16 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 13, 19, 23 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED