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Prisoner 666 · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 1 OF 66
Groove S -- Chorus
0 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 66 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS
PART AH
PART AQ
PART AZ
PART S9
PART S11
PART BU
OUTRO
15 groovesSAHS2AQAZ+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prisoner 666 on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-19, silence through bars 20-21, snare through bars 22-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29 and snare through bars 30-33, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26-27 and 30-31 -- 6.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------x-x---x-x-x---x-------x---|
BD |x---x-----x-----------x-x-x---x-|
Prisoner 666 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 68 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- S -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part AH -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- BU -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-58 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AH and Part AQ -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prisoner 666?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Prisoner 666 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 Prisoner 666?

16 fills to learn, played 74 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 68 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED