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Sixpounder · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 6 OF 58
Groove C -- Part C
59 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBDKC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sixpounder on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-11, snare through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-43 and ride through bars 44-47, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-27, 36-42 and 64-65, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    20               21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|x-x--x-x--x--x-x|
Sixpounder -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 47, 66 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 16-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-45 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part B and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sixpounder?

153 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 Sixpounder hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Sixpounder?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 47, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED