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Point · Slayer

EXERCISE 5 OF 82
10-bar fill at bar 24
56 / 208 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
11 groovesHACTCV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Point on drums

208 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50, ride through bars 51-58, hi-hat through bars 59-66, ride through bars 67-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-82, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 67-73 and 83-89, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xxx--x--xxx--|
Point -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-51 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Point?

198 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 Point hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Point?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED