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God Send Death · Slayer

EXERCISE 2 OF 74
Groove U -- Chorus
35 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 34 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS
PART X
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
13 groovesUXAJNA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play God Send Death on drums

191 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-15, toms through bars 16-37, ride through bars 38-44 and snare through bars 45-62, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-52, 54-59 and 82-88, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-------|
God Send Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-17 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part S4 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-38 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is God Send Death?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is God Send Death hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in God Send Death?

16 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 29, 30, 31 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED