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Metalcore · Shitass

EXERCISE 4 OF 59
Groove I -- Part I
7 / 70 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART O
PART Q
PART S
PART U
PART X
12 groovesEXLUI+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metalcore on drums

70 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 1:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, snare through bars 18-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-53, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11 and 13-15 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 3, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, U -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-50 -- 11 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-34 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metalcore?

175 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 hard to play on drums?

56 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Metalcore?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 3, 8, 12, 16, 17 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED