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slain in the cemetary · gutted

EXERCISE 3 OF 50
Groove AE -- Part AE
24 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AE
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AE
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIPAEMAG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play slain in the cemetary on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
78/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-36, snare through bars 37-49, toms through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 55-57 and 59, and 5 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                                                               18
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |--x-------------------------------------------------------------|--x-------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------o---------------o---------------o-------------|------------------o---------------------------------------------|
SD |----------------------------------x-----------------------------|----------------------------------x--x-x--x--x-x----------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------x--x-x--x--x-x|
BD |--x-------------------------------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x|--x-------------------------------x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x--x--x-x|
slain in the cemetary -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 113, 114 and 115.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 11-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is slain in the cemetary?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 slain in the cemetary hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 slain in the cemetary?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 113, 114 and 115.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED