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Revenant · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 3 OF 47
Groove AA -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART U
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAAMUDI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Revenant on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-40, toms through bars 41-45 and snare through bars 46-61, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46-61 -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    46                                               47
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-x-x-x-----------------x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-|x-----x--x--x--x--------x--x--x--x--x--x--------|
Revenant -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 25, 39 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- U -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  5. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 24-40 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Revenant?

120 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 Revenant hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Revenant?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 21, 25, 39 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED