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Praise Of Death · Slayer

EXERCISE 7 OF 77
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 1-8)
134 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 77 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S14
PART R
PART F
10 groovesCFBRS14+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Praise Of Death on drums

249 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
90/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, ride through bars 36-46, hi-hat through bars 47-75 and ride through bars 76-83, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-34, 48-56 and 58, and 4 more places -- 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.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Praise Of Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 35, 39, 46 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 46-76 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-90 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-98 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Praise Of Death?

202 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 Praise Of Death hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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 Praise Of Death?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 35, 39, 46 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED