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Into The Pit · Testament

EXERCISE 25 OF 30
Join Part S10 to Outro (bars 104-106)
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0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S10, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHBLS10E+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Into The Pit on drums

151 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 2-20, silence through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-39, kick and crashes through bars 40-43, hi-hat through bars 44-73 and ride through bars 74-81, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 32-39, and 14 more places -- 39.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Into The Pit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 73, 81, 89, 97, 121 and 147.

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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-82 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-105 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Into The Pit?

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 Into The Pit hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Into The Pit?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 73, 81, 89, 97, 121 and 147.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED