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SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI · Machine Head

EXERCISE 29 OF 85
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
94 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART AA
CHORUS
PART K
PART P
PART AA
PART P
PART AA
PART AU
PART AA
PART BF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBAAPKAU+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI on drums

154 bars, 8:27, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
8:27
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36, toms through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-42 and snare through bars 43-44, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20 and 132-154 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33 and 64 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- B, AA -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-45 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and Part AA -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-52 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 48-66 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 8:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 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 SLAUGHTER THE MARTYR AI?

26 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 21, 22, 24, 26, 31, 33 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED