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Machine of Wrath · Unnamed artist

Machine of Wrath · Unnamed artist
EXERCISE 14 OF 66
Groove K
56 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Z
CHORUS
PART R
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
PART AM
PART AQ
OUTRO
BREAK 3
15 groovesARZAMS16+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Machine of Wrath on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 1-28, silence through bars 29-30, snare through bars 31-38, hi-hat through bars 39-56, snare through bars 57-121 and silence through bars 122-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-54 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39                                               40
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------g-----------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------------------x-------|x---------------x---------------x---------------|
Machine of Wrath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 38, 55, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A, I -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-78 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Machine of Wrath?

150 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 Machine of Wrath hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Machine of Wrath?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 38, 55, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED