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Senseless Massacre · Rings Of Saturn

EXERCISE 3 OF 113
Groove Q -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART K
PART W
PART AD
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BO
PART AU
PART E
PART CH
BREAK 3
15 groovesQKWAUCH+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Senseless Massacre on drums

232 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-8, ride through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-20 and toms through bars 21-29, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 202-216 and 218-219 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    203
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |X-----X-----X-----X-----|
HF |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
Senseless Massacre -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 105 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 99 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- CH -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AU -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Senseless Massacre?

260 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 Senseless Massacre hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Senseless Massacre?

31 fills to learn, played 105 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9 and 99 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED