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Homicidal Retribution · Dying Fetus

EXERCISE 2 OF 103
Groove K -- Part K
45 / 276 BARS COVERED
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PART E
PART K
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
PART Z
PART K
PART K
PART AO
CHORUS 3
22 groovesNKEAOQ+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Homicidal Retribution on drums

276 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
276
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-50, toms through bars 51-52, hi-hat through bars 53-54 and toms through bars 55-56, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53, 57 and 61, and 6 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Homicidal Retribution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-14 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-46 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 18 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Homicidal Retribution?

230 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 Homicidal Retribution hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

276 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 26 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 Homicidal Retribution?

17 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 276 BARS ANALYSED