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The Chosen Pessimist · In Flames

EXERCISE 4 OF 23
Join Part B to Break (bars 19-21)
101 / 198 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
PART B
BREAK
PART B
BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGBS5S3S10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Chosen Pessimist on drums

198 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-20, silence through bars 21-37, toms through bars 38-53, silence through bars 54-77 and kick and crashes through bars 78-85, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 110-112, 114-118 and 120-121, and 10 more places -- 39.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    110
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
The Chosen Pessimist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- G, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 19-85 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 82-97 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 106-198 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Chosen Pessimist?

112 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Chosen Pessimist hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Chosen Pessimist?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 109.

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