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Slaughter Of The Soul · At The Gates

EXERCISE 3 OF 41
Groove E -- Part E
58 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGCEJN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaughter Of The Soul on drums

118 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
93/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-13, ride through bars 14-21, snare through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 42-44 and 46-52, and 9 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    23
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Slaughter Of The Soul -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-26 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-49 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slaughter Of The Soul?

157 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Slaughter Of The Soul hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 11 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 Slaughter Of The Soul?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 21, 25, 33, 41, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED