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Sixpounder V2 · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove I -- Part I (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIDLTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sixpounder V2 on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-43, ride through bars 44-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-49, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-26, 36-42 and 66-67, and 3 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--xxx|
Sixpounder V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 27, 45 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-69 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-90 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sixpounder V2?

150 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 V2 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 V2?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 27, 45 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED