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Severed · Mudvayne

EXERCISE 23 OF 97
Groove Q -- Part Q
78 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 97 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
PART O
PART T
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART BL
PART S15
OUTRO 2
13 groovesIOS15TB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Severed on drums

238 bars of 4/4 at 143 BPM, about 6:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
6:32
DIFFICULTY
47/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, toms through bars 23-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-51, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 11 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---------xx|
Severed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 88 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O, T -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-24 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part T -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-202 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Severed?

143 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?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 6:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Severed?

25 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 11, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20 and 88 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED