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Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) · Pendulum

EXERCISE 6 OF 61
Fill at bar 10 (a small one)
103 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPLABTC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) on drums

203 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 3-19, toms through bars 20-34, hi-hat through bars 35-82, kick and crashes through bars 83-86, hi-hat through bars 87-150 and kick and crashes through bars 151-155, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 59-64 and 87, and 9 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- P, L -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-35 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 20-51 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-135 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Self vs Self (feat. In Flames)?

174 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 Self vs Self (feat. In Flames) hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Self vs Self (feat. In Flames)?

13 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 10, 18, 33, 34, 41, 42 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED