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The Aftermath · Demoncore

EXERCISE 2 OF 32
7-bar fill at bar 24
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0 / 32 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S3, CHORUS
PART A
PART E
PART S3
CHORUS
OUTRO
6 groovesXEAGS3A+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Aftermath on drums

85 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
100/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-21, silence through bars 22-23, ride through bars 24-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-44, 48-53 and 60-77 -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--xxx-xx--xx--xx--xxx-x---x-|
The Aftermath -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- X -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through Part S3 and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-30 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Aftermath?

117 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 The Aftermath hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Aftermath?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 19 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED