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Doomswitch · Make Them Suffer

EXERCISE 12 OF 32
Groove H
86 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3, CHORUS 4
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
BREAK 5
OUTRO
9 groovesBOFS12S4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doomswitch on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 2-25, silence through bars 26-29, snare through bars 30-37, silence through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-113 and toms through bars 114-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 17 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---X---X---X---|X---X---X---X---|
SD |--------X-------|--------X-------|
BD |xx--xxxxxxxx--xx|xxxxxx--xx--xxxx|
Doomswitch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 49, 77, 93 and 151.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Doomswitch?

143 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Doomswitch hard to play on drums?

53 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Doomswitch?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 17, 49, 77, 93 and 151.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED