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The Antichrist · Slayer

EXERCISE 21 OF 24
6-bar fill at bar 144
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0 / 24 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHAS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Antichrist on drums

150 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-144, kick and crashes through bars 145-147 and snare through bars 148-150.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 13 more places -- 74% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x--x--------|
The Antichrist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 40, 56, 88, 92, 100 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 85-105 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Antichrist?

240 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 The Antichrist hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 The Antichrist?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 40, 56, 88, 92, 100 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED