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M-16 · Sodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEITLAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play M-16 on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-16, hi-hat through bars 17-43, ride through bars 44-51 and snare through bars 52-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 52-54, 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.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-------x-x-x-x-|
M-16 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 33 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-18 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part T -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-76 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is M-16?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 M-16 hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 M-16?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 33 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED