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Method To Your Madness · Metal Church

Method To Your Madness · Metal Church
EXERCISE 7 OF 41
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
47 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
5 groovesCHOAS9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Method To Your Madness on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 4:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3 and snare through bars 4-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 21 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-x-xxx-x-|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Method To Your Madness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 20, 21, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-26 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-56 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Method To Your Madness?

81 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Method To Your Madness hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Method To Your Madness?

9 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 6, 8, 16, 20, 21, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED