ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maggots In Your Flesh on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 2:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 129 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 89
LENGTH: 2:44
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

toms through bars 3-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-44, 49-52 and 74-77, and 1 more place -- 18.4% 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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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Maggots In Your Flesh -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 10, 22, 26 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part B and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
and 8 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Maggots In Your Flesh?

129 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 Maggots In Your Flesh hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 16 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Maggots In Your Flesh?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 6, 10, 22, 26 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED