ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disfigured At Half on drums

127 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 220 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 127
LENGTH: 2:19
DIFFICULTY: 92/100

snare through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, toms through bars 16-27, ride through bars 28-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-46, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 53-54 and 57-58, and 3 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53                                               54
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|------o-----o-----o-----------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----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-----x-----x-----|

Disfigured At Half -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 27, 30 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Disfigured At Half?

220 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 Disfigured At Half hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Disfigured At Half?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 27, 30 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED