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Mutilation · Death

EXERCISE 21 OF 48
Join Chorus 3 to Break (bars 50-52)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3, BREAK
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART S8
PART R
PART U
BREAK 2
8 groovesDEURS8+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mutilation on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
92/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-54, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-13, 18 and 20, and 9 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Mutilation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 17, 26, 30, 38, 42 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-43 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-61 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part S8 and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Mutilation?

110 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 Mutilation hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Mutilation?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 17, 26, 30, 38, 42 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED