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Mandatory Suicide (Slayer) · Swampjaw

EXERCISE 19 OF 70
Groove M -- Part M
90 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
PART D
PART K
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART I
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOAPDAIK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mandatory Suicide (Slayer) on drums

147 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
4:35
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39, toms through bars 40-43, ride through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 48-54 and 90-96 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Mandatory Suicide (Slayer) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 40, 41 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- O, AP -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-78 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-90 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)?

129 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 Mandatory Suicide (Slayer) hard to play on drums?

62 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 4:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Mandatory Suicide (Slayer)?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 40, 41 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED