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Pierced from Within · Suffocation

EXERCISE 10 OF 53
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART AO
PART AZ
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesIS9AOAZB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pierced from Within on drums

163 bars at 209 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
209 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-4, toms through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-31, ride through bars 32-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-61, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23-25, and 10 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-----o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-xxx-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Pierced from Within -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AZ -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 1-22 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pierced from Within?

209 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 Pierced from Within hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 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 Pierced from Within?

14 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED