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Snake of Eden · Antimortal

EXERCISE 5 OF 106
Fill at bar 49 (a small one)
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0 / 106 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART V
PART V
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BF
20 groovesAAVBFKE+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 25
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 20
LINK · 6
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snake of Eden on drums

229 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
72/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-30, snare through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-44, snare through bars 45-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-97, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-64, 66-68 and 70-72, and 15 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.

    66
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---|
Snake of Eden -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- AA, V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BF -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-70 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snake of Eden?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Snake of Eden hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Snake of Eden?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 9, 13, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED