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Slow Death · Carnifex

EXERCISE 15 OF 80
Groove N -- Part N
84 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART G
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART W
PART G
PART AF
PART AJ
CHORUS 2
PART M
12 groovesTGAFMR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slow Death on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27 and snare through bars 28-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-51 and 53-55, and 3 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----|
Slow Death -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- T -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-131 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slow Death?

150 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 Slow Death hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 23 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 Slow Death?

16 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED