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Impaled Souls of the Dead · PuDGE

EXERCISE 20 OF 64
Groove K
94 / 207 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART F
OUTRO
19 groovesCIFZAF+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Impaled Souls of the Dead on drums

193 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
5:43
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-72, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21-27 and 55, and 10 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Impaled Souls of the Dead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 11, 20, 106, 109, 159 and 4 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-44 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Impaled Souls of the Dead?

130 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 Impaled Souls of the Dead hard to play on drums?

72 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?

193 bars, about 5:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Impaled Souls of the Dead?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 11, 20, 106, 109, 159 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED