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Immortal Rites · Morbid Angel

EXERCISE 20 OF 74
Fill at bar 53 and 178 (a small one)
108 / 211 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART S
PART V
PART AD
CHORUS 2
PART S
9 groovesHVSADE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Immortal Rites on drums

211 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 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
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
211
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-57, hi-hat through bars 58-93, kick and crashes through bars 94-105, hi-hat through bars 106-140 and kick and crashes through bars 141-149, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62-64 and 66-68, and 6 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    58
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Immortal Rites -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 32, 40, 41 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part S -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Immortal Rites?

202 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 Immortal Rites hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

211 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Immortal Rites?

16 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 1, 2, 16, 32, 40, 41 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 211 BARS ANALYSED