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Spoils Of The Horde · Fit For An Autopsy

EXERCISE 8 OF 55
Groove M
29 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART B, PART C
PART S2
PART B
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART BC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABS2CBKB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spoils Of The Horde on drums

172 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-36, ride through bars 37-41, snare through bars 42-49, toms through bars 50-51 and snare through bars 52-56, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 44, 47 and 49, and 8 more places -- 6.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x-x-x-|
Spoils Of The Horde -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- AB -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Spoils Of The Horde?

185 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 Spoils Of The Horde hard to play on drums?

58 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 Spoils Of The Horde?

13 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED