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Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon · Mystic Whore

EXERCISE 1 OF 52
Groove J -- Chorus
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PART C
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART R
PART S11
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJPRCS11+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon on drums

306 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 5:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
306
LENGTH
5:06
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-51, silence through bars 52-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-62, hi-hat through bars 63-159 and silence through bars 160-178, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 63, 65-67 and 69, and 31 more places -- 33.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    80
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------X-----|
BD |x---x---x-x-|
Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 34, 41, 42, 49, 50, 62 and 37 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 93-126 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 123-143 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon?

180 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

306 bars, about 5:06 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 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 Massacre Under the Mystical Black Moon?

10 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 34, 41, 42, 49, 50, 62 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 306 BARS ANALYSED