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Swarm (The cleansing) · Suicide Silence

EXERCISE 24 OF 80
Join Part E to Part P (bars 42-44)
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0 / 80 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART P
PART J
PART E
PART P
PART H
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AJ
CHORUS 3
9 groovesTPEJH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
JOIN · 16
LINK · 14
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Swarm (The cleansing) on drums

212 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and ride through bars 36-43, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56-63, 109-115 and 117-123, and 6 more places -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    56
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------o-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Swarm (The cleansing) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- T, P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-65 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 40-58 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Swarm (The cleansing)?

225 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 Swarm (The cleansing) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Swarm (The cleansing)?

15 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED