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Genesis of Suffering · Corpse Pile

Genesis of Suffering · Corpse Pile
EXERCISE 26 OF 31
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 48-50)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesMEFBS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Genesis of Suffering on drums

70 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:41 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:41
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-17, toms through bars 18-19, snare through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-32 and snare through bars 33-44, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 24, and 10 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-|
Genesis of Suffering -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 27, 35, 39, 44 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 8-25 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-51 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Genesis of Suffering?

165 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 Genesis of Suffering hard to play on drums?

60 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Genesis of Suffering?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 18, 19, 27, 35, 39, 44 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED