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Dominate · Morbid Angel

EXERCISE 3 OF 33
Groove G -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIJDAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dominate on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48 and ride through bars 49-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-28 and 33-40 -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dominate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dominate?

106 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 Dominate hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 14 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dominate?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 8, 16, 45, 46, 47, 48 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED