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Plague Rages · Napalm Death

EXERCISE 21 OF 44
Groove M -- Part M
72 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
PART M
PART O
PART P
BREAK
8 groovesDS11HJO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Plague Rages on drums

136 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
52/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-71 and toms through bars 72-79, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 17-22 and 41-47, and 1 more place -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|----x-----------|
BD |x-x-----------x-|x---------x-x---|
Plague Rages -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 28, 48 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-36 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 37-64 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Plague Rages?

180 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 Plague Rages hard to play on drums?

52 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?

136 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Plague Rages?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 28, 48 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED