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Doomsday Parade · Cypecore

EXERCISE 9 OF 82
Groove F
27 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK
PART AG
PART AK
OUTRO
16 groovesCAGAKMS13+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doomsday Parade on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25 and snare through bars 26-33, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 7 more places -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-------x---|
Doomsday Parade -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 30, 32 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doomsday Parade?

97 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 Doomsday Parade hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 22 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Doomsday Parade?

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 25, 30, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED