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South of Heaven D Standard · Slayer

EXERCISE 21 OF 89
Join Part K to Part M (bars 31-33)
60 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART M
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART K
PART M
CHORUS
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AJ
PART AM
OUTRO 2
10 groovesUAMXS1M+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play South of Heaven D Standard on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-42, ride through bars 43-46 and toms through bars 47-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-54, 73-78 and 86, and 5 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
South of Heaven D Standard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 32 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-65 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is South of Heaven D Standard?

107 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 South of Heaven D Standard hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 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 South of Heaven D Standard?

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 22, 24, 32 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED