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Mandatory Suicide · Slayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 75
Groove N -- Chorus 3
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PART B
PART E
PART L
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART J
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
12 groovesNAMABEL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mandatory Suicide on drums

143 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 2-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, toms through bars 39-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-54 and ride through bars 55-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 47-53 and 87-93 -- 15.2% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 42, 46 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- N, AM -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 28-43 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-58 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-70 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mandatory Suicide?

148 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 hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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?

15 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 25, 42, 46 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED