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Purgatory copy · Conscious Dismemberment

EXERCISE 10 OF 71
Groove E -- Part E
33 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART H
PART R
PART V
PART Z
PART AF
PART AM
PART AO
PART AS
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
18 groovesABASAFVAM+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Purgatory copy on drums

154 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-19, ride through bars 20-23, snare through bars 24-31, hi-hat through bars 32-52 and ride through bars 53-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 61-68, 70 and 72, and 2 more places -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-----------x---x-----------|
Purgatory copy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 52, 54, 56, 60 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AS -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Purgatory copy?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Purgatory copy hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Purgatory copy?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 21, 23, 52, 54, 56, 60 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED