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Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell · HIM

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove J -- Chorus 2
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PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJVAVANL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell on drums

150 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-19, toms through bars 20-21 and snare through bars 22-23, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 44, and 6 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    116
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 17 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-18 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell?

200 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 Riffs in a Nutshell hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell?

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 17 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED