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Snuff · Fall Of God

EXERCISE 2 OF 51
Groove C -- Part C
10 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART D
PART I
PART O
PART P
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK 3
15 groovesTS17XCI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Snuff on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-28 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Snuff -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 17 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-34 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-49 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Snuff?

98 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 Snuff hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 18 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 Snuff?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 15, 17 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED