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Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats · Alex Chichikailo

EXERCISE 6 OF 90
Groove C -- Part C
88 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART D, PART C
PART A
PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFQAAAD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats on drums

206 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-22, ride through bars 23-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54 and ride through bars 55-70, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 28-29 and 31-37, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 22, 30, 38, 46, 50 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-16 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-26 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-55 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-141 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats?

220 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 Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Modern DEATH METAL - Riffs, Chugs and Blastbeats?

24 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 2, 22, 30, 38, 46, 50 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED