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In League With Satan · Carpathian Forest

EXERCISE 10 OF 55
Groove B -- Part B
156 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART S
OUTRO
9 groovesESXS1L+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In League With Satan on drums

239 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-26, toms through bars 27-99 and snare through bars 100-106, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-50, 65-91 and 93, and 4 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    28
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
FT |x---------------x-------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
In League With Satan -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 58, 62, 94, 100, 101, 102 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 24-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 100-116 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In League With Satan?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is In League With Satan hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 In League With Satan?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 58, 62, 94, 100, 101, 102 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED