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EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
PART S16
PART AP
PART AT
CHORUS 4
14 groovesBWHATR+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drone Corpse Aviator on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
82/100

hi-hat through bars 3-23, ride through bars 24-27, snare through bars 28-37, hi-hat through bars 38-41, snare through bars 42-44 and silence through bars 45-49, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 9-13 and 28, and 6 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-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--|
Drone Corpse Aviator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 68, 81 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-28 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drone Corpse Aviator?

150 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 Drone Corpse Aviator hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Drone Corpse Aviator?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 68, 81 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED