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Dethharmonic · Dethklok

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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COUNT-IN
PART S4
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesFGDS4L+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dethharmonic on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, silence through bars 13-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-23, silence through bars 24-26 and kick and crashes through bars 27-28, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-44, 77-91 and 105-108, and 4 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    77
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dethharmonic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 64, 75, 76 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-40 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-60 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 59-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 68-77 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dethharmonic?

120 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 Dethharmonic hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dethharmonic?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 20, 28, 64, 75, 76 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED