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Slowly We Rot (D Standard) · Obituary

EXERCISE 8 OF 41
Groove J -- Part J
44 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHAJBE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slowly We Rot (D Standard) on drums

103 bars, 5:34, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-19, toms through bars 20-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-38, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |----o-------o-------o-------o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----x-----x---x-----|
Slowly We Rot (D Standard) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 42, 86 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-24 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-33 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-46 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-70 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slowly We Rot (D Standard)?

74 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 Slowly We Rot (D Standard) hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Slowly We Rot (D Standard)?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 8, 16, 26, 42, 86 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED