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human taxidermy · average bedroom guitarist

EXERCISE 2 OF 33
Groove O -- Part O
13 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEOQBJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play human taxidermy on drums

59 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
59
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-59.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 18-20 and 49-55 -- 21.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------x-------x-------|
HH |----------------o-------o-------o-------o-----------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
human taxidermy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-10 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-42 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is human taxidermy?

117 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 human taxidermy hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

59 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 taxidermy?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 7, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 59 BARS ANALYSED