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Envenomed · Malevolent Creation

EXERCISE 1 OF 120
Groove H -- Chorus
0 / 244 BARS COVERED
0 / 120 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART Y
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
9 groovesHBBCALY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 35
LAND · 35
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 14
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Envenomed on drums

244 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
98/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-10, ride through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-35, and 30 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 28-30 and 32-33, and 11 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Envenomed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

35 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 26 and 70 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 84 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 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BB -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-192 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-241 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Envenomed?

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

Is Envenomed hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 28 sittings, about 26 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 Envenomed?

35 fills to learn, played 76 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 18, 19, 26 and 70 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED