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Mass Strangulation · Bloodbath

EXERCISE 11 OF 54
Groove D -- Part D
63 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEUKDF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mass Strangulation on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, ride through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-45 and ride through bars 46-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-21, 38-44 and 86-100 -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-41 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mass Strangulation?

115 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 Mass Strangulation hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Mass Strangulation?

12 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 23, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED