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God Machine · Acid Bath

EXERCISE 23 OF 67
Groove L -- Part L
71 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART U
PART B
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART AB
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesNUYBF+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Machine on drums

170 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-34, silence through bars 35-37, hi-hat through bars 38-80, snare through bars 81-85 and kick and crashes through bars 86-90, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 146-161 -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    146
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-o-o-o-x-o-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
God Machine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 17, 20, 25, 28, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- AJ -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-38 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is God Machine?

210 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 God Machine hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 sittings, about 28 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 God Machine?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 15, 17, 20, 25, 28, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED