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Rejoice in Moribund · Mortal Decay

EXERCISE 25 OF 84
Fill at bar 36 and 122 (a small one)
106 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 84 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART S9
PART L
PART Q
PART AI
13 groovesDQNAIL+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rejoice in Moribund on drums

176 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
2:54
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-69, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 14 and 18, and 10 more places -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Rejoice in Moribund -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 30, 36, 52 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-166 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rejoice in Moribund?

240 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Rejoice in Moribund hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 2:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Rejoice in Moribund?

19 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 30, 36, 52 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED