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The Conjuring · Megadeth

EXERCISE 10 OF 63
Groove E -- Part E (a two-bar phrase)
92 / 194 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART C
PART E
PART C
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
14 groovesABCDAGA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Conjuring on drums

194 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 5:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
194
LENGTH
5:15
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-81, ride through bars 82-97, kick and crashes through bars 98-114, silence through bars 115-121 and ride through bars 122-187, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-32, 42 and 44, and 6 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
The Conjuring -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 43, 55, 65, 81, 89, 101 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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, AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-59 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Conjuring?

148 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 Conjuring hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

194 bars, about 5:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Conjuring?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 43, 55, 65, 81, 89, 101 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 194 BARS ANALYSED