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Mask Of Sanity · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 88
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 88 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART AG
PART D
CHORUS 4
14 groovesBHKAGAE+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mask Of Sanity on drums

191 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- 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
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, toms through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-90, kick and crashes through bars 91-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-98, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 45 and 47, and 9 more places -- 19.3% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Mask Of Sanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 26, 36, 44, 52, 54 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mask Of Sanity?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Mask Of Sanity 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 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 Mask Of Sanity?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 26, 36, 44, 52, 54 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED