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My Damnation · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 27 OF 86
Groove R -- Part R
45 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 86 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART F
PART O
PART R
PART S7
PART AA
PART AE
PART AK
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesS15FAPAAAK+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Damnation on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-26, hi-hat through bars 27-38, snare through bars 39-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 24, 28 and 83-84, and 2 more places -- 6.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    83                                                               84
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
SD |----------------------------------------------------------------|x---------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |----------------------------------------x-------x---------------|--------x-------x-------x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
My Damnation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- P, O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BE -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part R -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Damnation?

120 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 My Damnation hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 24 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 My Damnation?

19 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 8 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED