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Ouroboros · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 8 OF 70
Groove AV -- Outro (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S3
PART M
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART S10
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesZMAJAVAZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ouroboros on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
89/100

snare through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-41, ride through bars 42-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-46, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 78-79, and 1 more place -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32                               33
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|x---x-------x-------x-------x---|
RD |----x---x---x---x-x-x---x---x---|--------------------------------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|xxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-xxxxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
Ouroboros -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AV -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-16 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 4-24 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part T -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-119 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ouroboros?

135 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 Ouroboros hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ouroboros?

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED