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Melodic Metalcore · Xcuse the Blood

Melodic Metalcore · Xcuse the Blood
EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove G -- Chorus
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0 / 60 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AD
14 groovesGXUADC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Melodic Metalcore on drums

213 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, toms through bars 5-7, silence through bars 8-11, toms through bars 12-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-41, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 26 and 34, and 19 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---------------------------x---|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x---|
BD |x-------x---x-------x---x-------|
Melodic Metalcore -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 17, 23, 31, 65, 73 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, U -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-11 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Melodic Metalcore?

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

Is Melodic Metalcore hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Melodic Metalcore?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 17, 23, 31, 65, 73 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED