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Laceration Penetration · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 17 OF 63
Groove Q -- Part Q
76 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, OUTRO
PART B
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART AG
PART K
PART AV
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesNKQBAG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Laceration Penetration on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
81/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-19, hi-hat through bars 20-21, ride through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36, 38 and 52, and 10 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Laceration Penetration -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 39, 43, 49, 77 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part Q and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Laceration Penetration?

140 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 Laceration Penetration hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 23 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Laceration Penetration?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 29, 39, 43, 49, 77 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED