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Hope Dies With The Decadent · Carnifex

EXERCISE 9 OF 85
Fill at bar 9
79 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
PART H
PART Q
PART H
PART AC
PART AF
PART AI
OUTRO
12 groovesEHAIACQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 11
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hope Dies With The Decadent on drums

198 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-27, snare through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-41, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28, 32 and 36, and 7 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Hope Dies With The Decadent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- H, E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hope Dies With The Decadent?

220 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 Hope Dies With The Decadent hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 18 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 Hope Dies With The Decadent?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED