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Putrid Organ Harvest · Cystotomy

EXERCISE 25 OF 63
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 52-54)
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0 / 63 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART B
PART D
PART F
PART F
PART J
PART D
CHORUS
PART S
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesHFDJS16+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Putrid Organ Harvest on drums

129 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, kick and crashes through bars 34-41, ride through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 54-56, and 5 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    54
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |----------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Putrid Organ Harvest -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 29, 53, 57, 61 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Putrid Organ Harvest?

168 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 Putrid Organ Harvest hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Putrid Organ Harvest?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 13, 17, 29, 53, 57, 61 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED