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Evil Church · Enthroned

Evil Church · Enthroned
EXERCISE 3 OF 26
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
131 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesGIDS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Church on drums

202 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
96/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-187, silence through bars 188-191 and ride through bars 192-202.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-43, 45-51 and 85-88, and 12 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Evil Church -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 89, 90, 91 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Church?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Evil Church hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, 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 Evil Church?

5 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 44, 52, 89, 90, 91 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED