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Front Toward Enemy · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Run D1 · Part D (bars 29-43)
98 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBDMIS1+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Front Toward Enemy on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-28, hi-hat through bars 29-54, snare through bars 55-60, hi-hat through bars 61-80, silence through bars 81-92 and snare through bars 93-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-24, 45-53 and 55-57, and 14 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x-------|
SD |x-----x-----x---|--x-----x---x---|
FT |----------------|------------x---|
BD |--x-x---x-x---x-|x---x-x---x---x-|
Front Toward Enemy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 160 and 162.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-144 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 69-81 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 83-109 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-121 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 119-160 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Front Toward Enemy?

150 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 Front Toward Enemy hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Front Toward Enemy?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 54, 160 and 162.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED