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The Atrophied · Monstrosity

The Atrophied · Monstrosity
EXERCISE 1 OF 84
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART J
PART L
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDRADLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Atrophied on drums

162 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- 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 how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
100/100

toms through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-28, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-12 and 15-17, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
The Atrophied -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 14 and 61 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Atrophied?

202 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 Atrophied hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 95 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 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 Atrophied?

21 fills to learn, played 67 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 5, 13, 14 and 61 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED