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Slaves To Substance · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Groove E -- Part E
36 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART J
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
8 groovesLGEJQ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slaves To Substance on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
86/100

ride through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-23, snare through bars 24-36, hi-hat through bars 37-45 and snare through bars 46-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 46-48, and 3 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                                               30
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x--x-x----------x-------x---x-------x---|x---x---x-------x---x---x---x---------------------------x--x-x--|
Slaves To Substance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 5-20 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slaves To Substance?

110 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 Slaves To Substance hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 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 To Substance?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED