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Symptom of the Universe · Sepultura

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBACURS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symptom of the Universe on drums

187 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-18, toms through bars 19-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-50 and toms through bars 51-52, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11-18, 27-50 and 59-65, and 2 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11                                               12
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------x-----|------x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
Symptom of the Universe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-59 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-107 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Symptom of the Universe?

166 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Symptom of the Universe hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Symptom of the Universe?

11 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED