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Natural Born Killer · Deviloof

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove G -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
CHORUS
PART K
PART S
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART Z
PART AF
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGDZAMS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 8
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Natural Born Killer on drums

160 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 2:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-17, snare through bars 18-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-56 and toms through bars 57-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-19, 22-23 and 26-27, and 8 more places -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----xx----x---|--x-----xxx-x-x-|
Natural Born Killer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 17, 20 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AM -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-42 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-116 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 88-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Natural Born Killer?

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 Natural Born Killer hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Natural Born Killer?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 9, 17, 20 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED