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M16 · Sodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 82
Groove M -- Part M
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0 / 82 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART M
PART R
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AF
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFMJRAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play M16 on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:14 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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-15, hi-hat through bars 16-42, ride through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
M16 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18 and 44 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 -- M, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-47 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 6-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 8-28 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part R -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is M16?

130 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 M16 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 M16?

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED