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Stigma Diabolicum · Belphegor

EXERCISE 26 OF 41
Groove N -- Part N
230 / 267 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, PART N, OUTRO
PART D
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART L
PART N
CHORUS 5
PART L
OUTRO
7 groovesKADLN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stigma Diabolicum on drums

267 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
49/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-37, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-48, 73-104 and 117-124, and 2 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    74
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |o---------------|
SD |x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Stigma Diabolicum -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 36 and 16 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 -- K -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-185 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 36-76 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 101-120 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 189-259 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stigma Diabolicum?

230 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 Stigma Diabolicum hard to play on drums?

49 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

267 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Stigma Diabolicum?

6 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 20, 24, 36 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED