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Elder Misanthropy · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 35 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART J
PART N
PART G
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBCJGN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elder Misanthropy on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
99/100

hi-hat through bars 1-46, ride through bars 47-52, snare through bars 53-54, hi-hat through bars 55-58, ride through bars 59-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-75.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 25-30 and 71-74 -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 15, 16, 20, 24, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-25 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elder Misanthropy?

120 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 Elder Misanthropy hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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.

How many fills are in Elder Misanthropy?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 15, 16, 20, 24, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED