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Necrophilia · Ancient North

EXERCISE 9 OF 57
Groove J -- Part J
74 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, CHORUS 2, PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
6 groovesBAJLG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Necrophilia on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and ride through bars 41-48, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 49-55 and 97-103, and 2 more places -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |g---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Necrophilia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-49 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-60 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-76 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-92 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Necrophilia?

140 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 Necrophilia hard to play on drums?

62 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Necrophilia?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED