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Priests Of Sodom · Cannibal Corpse

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCIGNHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Priests Of Sodom on drums

164 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
82/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-96, ride through bars 97-104, hi-hat through bars 105-124, kick and crashes through bars 125-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-145, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5-17 and 21, and 10 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Priests Of Sodom -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 37, 38, 46, 65, 66 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Priests Of Sodom?

190 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 Priests Of Sodom hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Priests Of Sodom?

4 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 37, 38, 46, 65, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED