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Subtraction · Sepultura

EXERCISE 6 OF 73
Groove F -- Part F
36 / 132 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART E
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART F
PART E
OUTRO 2
12 groovesIEYMAP+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 15
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Subtraction on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:45 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 the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
100/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, toms through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25 and ride through bars 26-29, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 63-66 and 105-112 -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Subtraction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 37, 39 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Subtraction?

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 Subtraction hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 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 Subtraction?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 37, 39 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED