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Lowpoint · NAPALM DEATH

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove F -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART N
PART S
PART N
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFNISL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lowpoint on drums

168 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25 and ride through bars 26-32, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 5 and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-45 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-67 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lowpoint?

205 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 Lowpoint hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Lowpoint?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 13, 21, 29 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED