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Human Prey · Terrorizer

EXERCISE 29 OF 29
Play the whole song with the record
108 / 113 BARS COVERED
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COUNT-IN
BREAK
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
PART J
CHORUS 5
PART G
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDJGS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human Prey on drums

113 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
89/100

toms through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, ride through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-48, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13 and 15, and 16 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Human Prey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 36, 40, 52 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-17 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-52 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 5 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Human Prey?

225 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 Human Prey hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 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 Human Prey?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 36, 40, 52 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED