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Slaves Beyond Death · Thy Art Is Murder

EXERCISE 2 OF 61
Groove B -- Part B
55 / 173 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 5
PART B
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEBMAAG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaves Beyond Death on drums

173 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-56 and ride through bars 57-60, and 26 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 61-63, and 6 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Slaves Beyond Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 42 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-53 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slaves Beyond Death?

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

Is Slaves Beyond Death hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Slaves Beyond Death?

14 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 48, 52 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED