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Slaved Chains · Dystopia

EXERCISE 30 OF 58
Run G2 · Part G (bars 46-55)
73 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART D
PART G
PART M
PART G
PART R
PART S10
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZGDMR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaved Chains on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-33, silence through bars 34-35, kick and crashes through bars 36-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-54, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23-28, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 30, 32, 54, 60, 61 and 10 more.

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 -- G, Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 60-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slaved Chains?

125 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 Slaved Chains hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slaved Chains?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 30, 32, 54, 60, 61 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED