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Judgement Day · Dying Fetus

EXERCISE 20 OF 44
Groove J -- Part J
51 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
PART E
PART J
PART S5
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNEJHM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Judgement Day on drums

80 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, ride through bars 15-23, silence through bars 24-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-30, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 44-46, and 1 more place -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x--x--x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x--------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x--x--x-|
Judgement Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-74 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part S5 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Judgement Day?

165 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 Judgement Day hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Judgement Day?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED