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Engineered Atrophy · Contaminant

EXERCISE 12 OF 37
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 18-20)
52 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART K
PART Q
PART S10
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEHS10QB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Engineered Atrophy on drums

122 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, snare through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-27 and ride through bars 28-35, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22-26 and 96-110 -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    97
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Engineered Atrophy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 27.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, Q -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-20 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-29 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Engineered Atrophy?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Engineered Atrophy hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 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 Engineered Atrophy?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 19 and 27.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED