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Eaten · Bloodbath

EXERCISE 5 OF 26
Groove D -- Part D
47 / 79 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART D, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHFBDN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eaten on drums

79 bars, 4:13, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bars 2-47, silence through bars 48-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-59, snare through bars 60-63, kick and crashes through bars 64-69 and snare through bars 70-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 40-46 and 60-63, and 2 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    16
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |--------x-----------------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Eaten -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- H, B -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-71 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eaten?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Eaten hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

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