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The Ambassador Of Pain · Kataklysm

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove F -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART I
PART N
PART I
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesFJING+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Ambassador Of Pain on drums

114 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
76/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-36, snare through bars 37-44 and ride through bars 45-54, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 45-52 and 98-101 -- 20.2% 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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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Ambassador Of Pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 38, 40 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, N -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-69 -- 5 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 49-64 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Ambassador Of Pain?

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

Is The Ambassador Of Pain hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Ambassador Of Pain?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 20, 38, 40 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED