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Impaler · Exodus

EXERCISE 2 OF 97
Groove AL -- Part AL
35 / 221 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AL
PART H
PART H
PART AC
PART AL
CHORUS
PART AL
CHORUS 2
12 groovesAQACHALE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Impaler on drums

221 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-30, ride through bars 31-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-62, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 83-89, 91-97 and 99-105, and 2 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Impaler -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 20 and 55 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part AL and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-18 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Impaler?

148 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 Impaler hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Impaler?

26 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 20 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED