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Terminal Existance · Vile

EXERCISE 19 OF 85
Groove L
84 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 85 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M, PART G
PART H
PART M
PART G
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesCEMGAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 14
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Terminal Existance on drums

189 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:37 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
85/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-36, toms through bars 37-38, hi-hat through bars 39-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-68, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 15-18, and 8 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Terminal Existance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 14, 36, 37, 38, 46 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Intro and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Terminal Existance?

200 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 Terminal Existance hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Terminal Existance?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 6, 14, 36, 37, 38, 46 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED