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Sarcastic Existence · Sepultura

EXERCISE 3 OF 83
Groove A -- Part A
81 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 83 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
14 groovesLS18AMN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sarcastic Existence on drums

219 bars at 296 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
296 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-83, toms through bars 84-85, hi-hat through bars 86-127 and ride through bars 128-133, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-45, 86-93 and 96-102, and 6 more places -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-31 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-185 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part M -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sarcastic Existence?

296 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 Sarcastic Existence hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Sarcastic Existence?

17 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 4, 16, 20, 22, 24, 30 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED