ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dissect, Molest, Ingest on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 130 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 85
LENGTH: 2:37
DIFFICULTY: 86/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-23, snare through bars 24-29, hi-hat through bars 30-43 and snare through bars 44-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-15 and 24-26, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

Dissect, Molest, Ingest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 27, 31, 33, 43, 49 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part G and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Dissect, Molest, Ingest?

130 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 Dissect, Molest, Ingest hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dissect, Molest, Ingest?

12 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 27, 31, 33, 43, 49 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED