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Spheres Of Madness · Decapitated

EXERCISE 21 OF 50
Fill at bar 53, 85 and 158 (a small one)
175 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAKDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spheres Of Madness on drums

202 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 5:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
5:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 24-27, and 26 more places -- 63.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Spheres Of Madness -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 33, 41, 47 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 4 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-158 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spheres Of Madness?

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

Is Spheres Of Madness hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 5:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 29 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 Spheres Of Madness?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 16, 28, 33, 41, 47 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED