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mallxcore · Blessthefall

EXERCISE 7 OF 60
Groove B
30 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART U
PART G
PART AD
PART U
PART V
PART AO
PART V
OUTRO
14 groovesHUAGV+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play mallxcore on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-53, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 43-44 and 69, and 3 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
mallxcore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- U, AD -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-47 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-72 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is mallxcore?

150 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 mallxcore hard to play on drums?

52 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 mallxcore?

13 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED