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Pure Massacre · Silverchair

EXERCISE 18 OF 20
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 79-81)
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PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pure Massacre on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 2-15, hi-hat through bars 16-62, toms through bars 63-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68, toms through bars 69-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-18, 20-62 and 65-68, and 1 more place -- 69.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 63, 64 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 65-81 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Pure Massacre?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pure Massacre hard to play on drums?

48 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pure Massacre?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 19, 63, 64 and 80.

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