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O Father O Satan O Sun! · Behemoth

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove T -- Outro 2
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PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesETBRA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play O Father O Satan O Sun! on drums

133 bars, 8:53, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, toms through bars 37-38 and ride through bars 39-44, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 93-99, 101-107 and 109-115, and 2 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------------------------------------------------------x-------|
O Father O Satan O Sun! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- T, E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-92 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is O Father O Satan O Sun!?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is O Father O Satan O Sun! hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 O Father O Satan O Sun!?

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED