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metalcore riff continued · TBP

EXERCISE 25 OF 68
Groove Q -- Part Q (a two-bar phrase)
85 / 148 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART A
PART H
PART W
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPAHAEW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play metalcore riff continued on drums

148 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-73, ride through bars 74-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-91, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56, 109-110 and 115, and 4 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
metalcore riff continued -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 26, 27, 28, 31, 40 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- P, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-29 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is metalcore riff continued?

190 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 metalcore riff continued hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 metalcore riff continued?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 26, 27, 28, 31, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED