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Splintered · Infection of the Dying

EXERCISE 19 OF 70
Groove O -- Part O
110 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART L
CHORUS
PART O
PART L
PART T
PART AC
PART T
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFTLQB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 15
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Splintered on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-2, silence through bars 3-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-33 and snare through bars 34-41, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-52, 54 and 56, and 13 more places -- 23.4% 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--|
Splintered -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 16 more.

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 -- T, G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-19 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-69 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 36-54 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Splintered?

135 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 Splintered hard to play on drums?

57 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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 Splintered?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 16, 17, 25, 33, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED