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Terrible Certainty · Kreator

EXERCISE 2 OF 56
Groove L -- Part L
42 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 5
PART L
PART S17
PART F
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMLFAR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Terrible Certainty on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
88/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-29, hi-hat through bars 30-120, toms through bars 121-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-154, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-44 and 50-52, and 11 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    38
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Terrible Certainty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-41 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-46 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Terrible Certainty?

140 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 Terrible Certainty hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Terrible Certainty?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 20 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED