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Pagan Fears · Mayhem

EXERCISE 23 OF 48
Groove P
198 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLOAIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pagan Fears on drums

240 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-41, silence through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-80 and ride through bars 81-96, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-63 and 65-71, and 6 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pagan Fears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-81 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pagan Fears?

155 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 Pagan Fears hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Pagan Fears?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED