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My Dark Subconscious · Morbid

EXERCISE 7 OF 65
Join Part B to Part F (bars 12-14)
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PART B
PART F
PART J
PART B
PART J
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesYJBUZ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Dark Subconscious on drums

190 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 4:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
190
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-23, ride through bars 24-43, hi-hat through bars 44-64, ride through bars 65-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-130, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-130 and 158-188 -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    126
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
My Dark Subconscious -- 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 13, 22, 23, 33, 47, 49 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- Y -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-50 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 44-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Dark Subconscious?

153 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Dark Subconscious hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

190 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 My Dark Subconscious?

14 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 13, 22, 23, 33, 47, 49 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 190 BARS ANALYSED