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Reject Yourself · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 1 OF 60
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART S3
PART I
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesMS12AABI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reject Yourself on drums

268 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 194 BPM, 4:38 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
268
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
50/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-25, silence through bars 26-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32 and ride through bars 33-39, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 53-58, 61-63 and 65-66, and 2 more places -- 9.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53               54
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x-----x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-x---x-|
Reject Yourself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 52 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-31 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part S5 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-106 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reject Yourself?

194 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Reject Yourself hard to play on drums?

50 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

268 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Reject Yourself?

14 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 28, 52 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 268 BARS ANALYSED