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Now, Diabolical · Satyricon

Now, Diabolical · Satyricon
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EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-12)
79 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
6 groovesKRGEI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Now, Diabolical on drums

176 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
78/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-40, snare through bars 41-48, toms through bars 49-50, hi-hat through bars 51-80 and snare through bars 81-88, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-30 and 61-63, and 3 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    61
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
HH |o-------------------------------o-------------------------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Now, Diabolical -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 36, 40 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-37 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-52 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Now, Diabolical?

130 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 Now, Diabolical hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Now, Diabolical?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 36, 40 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED