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Ravage of Humanity · Return to Glory

EXERCISE 6 OF 79
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
35 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART I
PART O
PART X
PART Z
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesANEIXN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ravage of Humanity on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, snare through bars 13-47, hi-hat through bars 48-61, snare through bars 62-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-86, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Ravage of Humanity -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ravage of Humanity?

150 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 Ravage of Humanity hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Ravage of Humanity?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED