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Koschei · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 4 OF 35
Groove J -- Part J
47 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART L
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART J
PART M
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
10 groovesS7BLMJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Koschei on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49 and silence through bars 50-55, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-25 and 42-48, and 3 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Koschei -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 41, 75, 87, 88, 89 and 3 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 -- E, M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-59 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Koschei?

147 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Koschei hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 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 Koschei?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 41, 75, 87, 88, 89 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED