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Malevolent · Periphery

EXERCISE 9 OF 51
Groove Y
28 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART AD
PART S4
PART AM
PART AU
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBAMADAUBH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Malevolent on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-11, toms through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-23 and toms through bars 24-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 67 and 71, and 2 more places -- 5.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |----x-x---x-x---------x-x---x-x-|
Malevolent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AO, BB -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AD -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part AD and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Malevolent?

107 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 Malevolent hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Malevolent?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED