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Devouring Your Life · Cyanide Blood

EXERCISE 1 OF 56
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 56 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART O
PART P
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBXPOJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Devouring Your Life on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
81/100

ride through bars 1-33, hi-hat through bars 34-43, snare through bars 44-57, toms through bars 58-59, snare through bars 60-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 17.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    89
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------g---------------x---------------g---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------x-----------x-------|
Devouring Your Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 29, 46 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Devouring Your Life?

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 Devouring Your Life hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Devouring Your Life?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 29, 46 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED