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Diabolic Slumber · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 13 OF 71
Fill at bar 24 (a small one)
51 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
PART I
PART N
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BB
PART S16
OUTRO 2
18 groovesANBMBBAS16+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Diabolic Slumber on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 6:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
6:25
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, ride through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-53 and snare through bars 54-57, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 71-72, 95-101 and 103-108 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    71                                                               72
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |----------------------------------------------------------------|x---------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---------------x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---------------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Diabolic Slumber -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AN -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BM -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Diabolic Slumber?

110 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 Diabolic Slumber hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

178 bars, about 6:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Diabolic Slumber?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED