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Stigmata · Arch Enemy

EXERCISE 9 OF 14
Join Part D to Outro (bars 31-33)
72 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, OUTRO
PART A
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesJDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stigmata on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:55 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
1:55
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-64 -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------------------|
Stigmata -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 29-68 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stigmata?

150 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 Stigmata hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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