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Kill The Cult · Decapitated

EXERCISE 28 OF 33
Run Q1 · Outro (bars 185-207)
204 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBLDQI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kill The Cult on drums

216 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-21, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 18-31 and 46, and 10 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Kill The Cult -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 47, 79, 115, 165, 181 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, L -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 42-107 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kill The Cult?

190 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 Kill The Cult hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kill The Cult?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 17, 47, 79, 115, 165, 181 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED