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Ignominious & Pale · Necrophagist

EXERCISE 8 OF 93
Groove BA -- Part BA (a two-bar phrase)
81 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 93 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BA
PART B
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART AR
PART BA
PART BJ
OUTRO
7 groovesABJJBW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ignominious & Pale on drums

226 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 232 BPM, 3:04 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
93/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-15, ride through bars 16-24, toms through bars 25-27, ride through bars 28-60 and toms through bars 61-71, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 5 and 12, and 15 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ignominious & Pale -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 20 and 84 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part J and the Chorus 5 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ignominious & Pale?

232 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ignominious & Pale hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 25 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 Ignominious & Pale?

25 fills to learn, played 90 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 20 and 84 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED