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Payback · Slayer

EXERCISE 14 OF 41
Groove H -- Part H
91 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART S1
CHORUS
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDLGHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Payback on drums

134 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-17 and kick and crashes through bars 18-20, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-17, 37-39 and 41, and 11 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Payback -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 19, 20, 36, 40 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-24 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-37 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-57 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 55-71 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Payback?

199 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 Payback hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 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, 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 Payback?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 19, 20, 36, 40 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED