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severed · Hatebreed

EXERCISE 26 OF 51
Join Part Q to Part S (bars 43-45)
73 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Q, PART S
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART Q
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART X
PART I
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDIQSA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play severed on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-24, toms through bars 25-37, snare through bars 38-48 and kick and crashes through bars 49-53, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-18, 56-58 and 60 -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x---|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|--------x---x---|
BD |x-x---xx----x-x-|--x---xx--x-----|
severed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 38, 53, 54 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-62 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-25 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-60 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is severed?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 severed hard to play on drums?

46 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 severed?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 26, 27, 38, 53, 54 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED