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Pyramid God · Septicflesh

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART Q
PART W
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBOQGJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pyramid God on drums

183 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 2-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-103, toms through bars 104-140, silence through bars 141-142 and toms through bars 143-151, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 41, 69 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- B, Q -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-26 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-37 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-93 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-98 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 10 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Pyramid God?

142 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 Pyramid God hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Pyramid God?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 25, 29, 33, 41, 69 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED