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Ithyphallic · Nile

EXERCISE 17 OF 60
3-bar fill at bar 38 and 1 more
58 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART W
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
PART W
PART S
PART AC
PART AE
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS10BOALS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ithyphallic on drums

149 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
87/100

ride through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-40 and snare through bars 41-60, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 45-51 and 53-59 -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29
    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-|
Ithyphallic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part S and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ithyphallic?

155 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 Ithyphallic hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Ithyphallic?

14 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 17, 18 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED