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Habitual Infamy · Suffocation

EXERCISE 20 OF 101
Groove J
104 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART L
CHORUS
PART H
PART L
PART H
PART T
PART L
PART AM
PART AS
PART BB
PART L
11 groovesBHLBBT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Habitual Infamy on drums

232 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
67/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-53, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 8, and 9 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Habitual Infamy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Habitual Infamy?

225 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 Habitual Infamy hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 25 sittings, about 25 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 Habitual Infamy?

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 9, 11, 12 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED