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Infestation · Harms Way

EXERCISE 36 OF 39
Play the whole song with the record
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART F
PART I
PART L
PART F
BREAK
CHORUS
PART W
BREAK 2
OUTRO
9 groovesSBFIL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Infestation on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, snare through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-51 and ride through bars 52-53, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |x--x--x--x--x--x|--x--x--x---xxxx|
T1 |-x-----x-----x--|---x-----x------|
T2 |----x-----x-----|x-----x---------|
FT |--x-----x-----x-|----x-----x-----|
BD |-----x-----x----|-x-----x---xx---|
Infestation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 33, 37, 47, 49, 52 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- B, S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-88 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Infestation?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Infestation hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Infestation?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 31, 33, 37, 47, 49, 52 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED