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In Torment · Mors Principium Est

In Torment · Mors Principium Est
EXERCISE 18 OF 47
Groove J
67 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART G
PART I
PART G
PART I
PART O
PART U
PART S12
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesSGIOS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In Torment on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-38, hi-hat through bars 39-46 and snare through bars 47-135.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61, 87-93 and 95-101, and 3 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
In Torment -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 54, 56, 58 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is In Torment?

125 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 In Torment hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 16 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 In Torment?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 54, 56, 58 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED