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Stench of Prophet · Brutal Truth

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Groove R
70 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART S3
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesQEOAS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stench of Prophet on drums

80 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100

snare through bars 1-35, hi-hat through bars 36-49, snare through bars 50-57, hi-hat through bars 58-74 and snare through bars 75-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-37, 39 and 41, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Stench of Prophet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- Q, E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-34 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-80 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stench of Prophet?

220 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 Stench of Prophet hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stench of Prophet?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 24, 28 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED