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Postmortem · Slayer

EXERCISE 31 OF 47
5-bar fill at bar 81
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0 / 47 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART AE
BREAK
6 groovesFS8GAEI+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Postmortem on drums

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 210 BPM, 3:24 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, toms through bars 2-15, ride through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31, ride through bars 32-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-55, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 33 and 37-38, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------|
Postmortem -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 23, 31 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- G, F -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Y -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 88-102 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Postmortem?

210 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Postmortem hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Postmortem?

12 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 5, 9, 10, 14, 23, 31 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED