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dihsplosion · Devoured Carcass

EXERCISE 6 OF 34
Groove C -- Part C
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0 / 34 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
PART A
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
BREAK 4
11 groovesEATNI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play dihsplosion on drums

112 bars at 245 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
245 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 1-10, ride through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-36, ride through bars 37-39, silence through bars 40-42 and toms through bars 43-59, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-10 and 60-71 -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x-----------|x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x-----------|x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x---x---x---x-|
dihsplosion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 74, 75, 78 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-15 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-58 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part N -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-106 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is dihsplosion?

245 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is dihsplosion hard to play on drums?

49 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 dihsplosion?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 74, 75, 78 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED