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Suffocate · LANDMVRKS feat. Bertrand Poncet

Suffocate · LANDMVRKS feat. Bertrand Poncet
EXERCISE 7 OF 39
Groove C -- Part C
49 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLBIS1O+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Suffocate on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-12, kick and crashes through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-37, snare through bars 38-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 55-56, 58-60 and 62-64, and 6 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    58
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------x---------------|
Suffocate -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 37, 57, 65 and 101.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- L, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-73 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Suffocate?

106 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 Suffocate hard to play on drums?

61 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Suffocate?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 37, 57, 65 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED