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The Curse Of The Firstborn · Congelatio

EXERCISE 22 OF 75
Groove G (a two-bar phrase)
114 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART AG
PART AG
CHORUS 6
OUTRO 2
9 groovesWSAGEAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Curse Of The Firstborn on drums

193 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 6:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
6:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-25, snare through bars 26-27 and toms through bars 28-29, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 31-33, 35-37 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 15.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    31                               32
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|----------------x---x---x---x---|
HH |----o---o---o---o---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-----x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Curse Of The Firstborn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 19, 20, 23 and 59 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- S -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S4 and Part S -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Curse Of The Firstborn?

124 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Curse Of The Firstborn hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 6:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Curse Of The Firstborn?

19 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 8, 12, 15, 19, 20, 23 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED