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I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) · Hades II

EXERCISE 19 OF 68
Groove O -- Part O
78 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART AG, PART AJ
PART B
PART G
PART L
PART O
PART D
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABBDAJO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) on drums

133 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, snare through bars 29-31, toms through bars 32-33 and ride through bars 34-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-80 and 123-130 -- 11.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 32, 33, 37, 57, 64, 65 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- AB, E (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-94 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 42-74 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death)?

146 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 I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death) hard to play on drums?

48 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Am Gonna Claw (Out Your Eyes then Drown You to Death)?

14 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 32, 33, 37, 57, 64, 65 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED