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Sacrilegious · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Chorus 2 into Part F with the record (bars 49-56)
92 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sacrilegious on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-28 and ride through bars 29-38, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-15, 17-25 and 27, and 7 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                        6
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x---x-|
BD |x---x-----x-----x-----x-|----x-----x-----x-------|
Sacrilegious -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 52, 61, 62, 69, 70 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-53 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 72-81 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sacrilegious?

124 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 Sacrilegious hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Sacrilegious?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 36, 52, 61, 62, 69, 70 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED