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Smasher/Devourer · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 14 OF 58
Groove J
116 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART K
PART P
OUTRO 2
15 groovesFKPIT+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 17
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Smasher/Devourer on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:36
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-19, hi-hat through bars 20-43, snare through bars 44-51, hi-hat through bars 52-83 and snare through bars 84-99, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 28-34, and 8 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------------x-----------------x-----------|
BD |------X--X--------------X--X--------------X-----|
Smasher/Devourer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 152, 153 and 154.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 6-16 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-39 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 40-63 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Smasher/Devourer?

134 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 Smasher/Devourer hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Smasher/Devourer?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 152, 153 and 154.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED