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Horizons of Flesh · Infant Annihilator

EXERCISE 6 OF 86
Groove AS -- Part AS
15 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AS, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART W
PART AS
PART AP
PART BF
PART BL
PART BT
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
17 groovesEAPBTCGW+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horizons of Flesh on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-33, ride through bars 34-37 and snare through bars 38-43, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 54, 56 and 62, and 2 more places -- 3.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-----------------------x-x-x-x-x---x---x---x---|
Horizons of Flesh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 11, 16, 17, 23, 26, 28 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 -- AP -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BS -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part W -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part AD -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Horizons of Flesh?

130 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 Horizons of Flesh hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Horizons of Flesh?

19 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 11, 16, 17, 23, 26, 28 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED