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Impotent God · Hypocrisy

EXERCISE 4 OF 31
Groove J -- Part J
40 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART S1
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCHJS1KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Impotent God on drums

113 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:17
DIFFICULTY
92/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-6 and ride through bars 7-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9-11 and 13, and 14 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Impotent God -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 46, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Impotent God?

195 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 Impotent God hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 11 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Impotent God?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 14, 46, 63, 64, 65, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED