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Statutory Ape · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 12 OF 55
Join Part D to Part G (bars 9-11)
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0 / 55 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART D
CHORUS 3
5 groovesPDGVATFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Statutory Ape on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
100/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-11, hi-hat through bars 12-15, ride through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-23 and ride through bars 24-27, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 45-46, and 4 more places -- 19.8% 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.......
CC |X-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Statutory Ape -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-28 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-49 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Statutory Ape?

110 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 Statutory Ape hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Statutory Ape?

14 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 6, 10, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED