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Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation · Acranius

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove F -- Chorus
0 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCUPS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation on drums

111 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-58, kick and crashes through bars 59-61 and snare through bars 62-111.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-24 and 63-65, and 3 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    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-|
Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 28, 32, 36 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA, U -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation?

160 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 Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Life Sustainment To Continue Mutilation?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 20, 26, 28, 32, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED