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Slowly We Rot · Obituary

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove J -- Chorus
0 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesJBMAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Slowly We Rot on drums

102 bars, 5:35, at 73 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
73 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
85/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, ride through bars 39-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-37 and 43-49, 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.

    27
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o|
SD |-------x---------------x---------------x---------------x--------|
BD |-----------x-------x-----------x-----------x-------x-----------x|
Slowly We Rot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 20, 55 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- J, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-33 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Slowly We Rot?

73 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 hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 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 Slowly We Rot?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 14, 15, 16, 20, 55 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED