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Official Playthrough · Funeral Derangements | by Ice Nine Kills

Official Playthrough · Funeral Derangements | by Ice Nine Kills
EXERCISE 12 OF 69
Groove H
44 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART L
PART AX
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
21 groovesEAXWLX+16Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 2
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Official Playthrough on drums

157 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-32, silence through bars 33-36 and toms through bars 37-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 43 and 45, and 10 more places -- 9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----x---------x-----|
Official Playthrough -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-42 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-25 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part S4 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Official Playthrough?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Official Playthrough hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Official Playthrough?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED