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Necrolust · Mayhem

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 37 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS, BREAK
PART A
PART G
PART J
CHORUS
PART Q
PART Q
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesS9LQAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Necrolust on drums

117 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 101 BPM, 6:59 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
101 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-26, ride through bars 27-52, silence through bars 53-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 53-54 and 94-95, and 1 more place -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 65, 67 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- A, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Necrolust?

101 BPM, in 8/4, 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 Necrolust hard to play on drums?

64 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 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Necrolust?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 9, 65, 67 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED