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Persecution · Necrophage

Persecution · Necrophage
EXERCISE 19 OF 41
Groove P -- Part P
123 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKS13LCQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Persecution on drums

204 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
5:54
DIFFICULTY
58/100

ride through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-16 and snare through bars 17-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-43 and 87-112 -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx-----x-------|
Persecution -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 17, 113 and 163.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, Q -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-47 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 64-83 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 80-114 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-147 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Persecution?

170 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 Persecution hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 5:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Persecution?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 17, 113 and 163.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED