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Grom · Behemoth

EXERCISE 31 OF 38
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 81-109)
116 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesCJAFS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Grom on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-78, ride through bars 79-80, snare through bars 81-120 and ride through bars 121-128.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-19 and 37-51, and 3 more places -- 38.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                        6
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------x-----r-----x-----|r-----x-----r-----x-rrrr|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Grom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-33 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-73 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-84 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-123 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Grom?

98 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Grom hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Grom?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 4, 12, 20, 28, 32, 36 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED