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Hidden in Atrophy · vlqg

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 25 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
4 groovesGBS5S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hidden in Atrophy on drums

60 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 1:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:12
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-32 and ride through bars 33-38, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 25-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Hidden in Atrophy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 17 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hidden in Atrophy?

215 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 Hidden in Atrophy hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 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 Hidden in Atrophy?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 17 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED