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Rotten Soil (full song) · Entombed

EXERCISE 7 OF 78
Groove E
48 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
PART AT
PART AV
OUTRO
BREAK 4
13 groovesFGAVACAF+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rotten Soil (full song) on drums

172 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-3, silence through bars 4-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-35 and kick and crashes through bars 36-40, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 11 more places -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-------x-----|
Rotten Soil (full song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 26, 30, 32, 34, 56 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- G, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-65 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 11-27 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 44-69 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Rotten Soil (full song)?

210 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 Rotten Soil (full song) hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Rotten Soil (full song)?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 26, 30, 32, 34, 56 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED