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Disengage · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 2 OF 54
Groove G -- Part G
32 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesAAGVGI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disengage on drums

174 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
75/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-92, hi-hat through bars 93-98, ride through bars 99-130 and hi-hat through bars 131-134, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-4, 25-31 and 49-54, and 1 more place -- 18.4% 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
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
Disengage -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 43, 48 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 11 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-19 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-29 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Disengage?

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

Is Disengage hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 Disengage?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 40, 43, 48 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED