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Sworn To The Black · Morbid Angel

EXERCISE 13 OF 64
Run I1 · Part I (bars 15-21)
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0 / 64 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART E
PART I
PART E
PART I
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLEAMIS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sworn To The Black on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
100/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-21, ride through bars 22-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-41, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 42, and 6 more places -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Sworn To The Black -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 23 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 11 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 15-26 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sworn To The Black?

114 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 Sworn To The Black hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Sworn To The Black?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 5, 21, 23 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED