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I Am Immortal · Mortal Sin

I Am Immortal · Mortal Sin
EXERCISE 5 OF 72
8-bar fill at bar 1
99 / 230 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
PART H
PART H
PART K
PART O
PART T
CHORUS
PART V
11 groovesZHTOI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Am Immortal on drums

230 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-76, ride through bars 77-85, hi-hat through bars 86-87 and ride through bars 88-103, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-39 and 49-51, and 1 more place -- 17.4% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
I Am Immortal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- H, Z -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part H -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 1-40 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-48 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-77 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Am Immortal?

180 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 I Am Immortal hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 I Am Immortal?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED