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On the Brink of Extinction · Napalm Death

EXERCISE 31 OF 69
Groove T (a two-bar phrase)
115 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART V
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART V
PART M
PART AF
9 groovesEMAFADK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On the Brink of Extinction on drums

168 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
62/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, toms through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-72, toms through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 49-55, and 2 more places -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-xxx---x-|
On the Brink of Extinction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 32, 33 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-155 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-157 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is On the Brink of Extinction?

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

Is On the Brink of Extinction 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 On the Brink of Extinction?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 6, 8, 16, 32, 33 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED