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Excluded From Humanity · Decalius

EXERCISE 16 OF 35
Groove I (a two-bar phrase)
73 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGOCMK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Excluded From Humanity on drums

120 bars, 6:24, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
6:24
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-44, snare through bars 45-54, hi-hat through bars 55-82, snare through bars 83-86 and hi-hat through bars 87-95, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 87-89, 91-93 and 103-118 -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    87
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----------x-----|
Excluded From Humanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 45, 46 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Excluded From Humanity?

75 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 Excluded From Humanity hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 6:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Excluded From Humanity?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 45, 46 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED