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Horrendous Festering Transmutations · Epicardiectomy

EXERCISE 1 OF 59
Groove E -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART V
PART T
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesENTVH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horrendous Festering Transmutations on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-26, ride through bars 27-35, hi-hat through bars 36-51 and kick and crashes through bars 52-59, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-17 and 36-43, and 5 more places -- 20.8% 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
HH |oooooooooooooooo|
SD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Horrendous Festering Transmutations -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 13, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-122 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-45 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Horrendous Festering Transmutations?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Horrendous Festering Transmutations hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Horrendous Festering Transmutations?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 8, 13, 18, 22, 26 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED