ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 134 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 132
LENGTH: 3:56
DIFFICULTY: 85/100

toms through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-40, toms through bars 41-57, snare through bars 58-97, toms through bars 98-115 and snare through bars 116-132.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-18, 24-26 and 42-43, and 3 more places -- 11.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17                       18
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
SD |------------x-----------|------------x-----------|
T1 |--x---x---x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x---x---x-|
T2 |----------------x-------|x-------x---------------|
FT |----x---x-----------x---|----x-----------x---x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-----x-x-|----x-----x-x-----x-----|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|

The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part P and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through Part P and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Exquisite Machinery Of Torture?

134 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 Exquisite Machinery Of Torture hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Exquisite Machinery Of Torture?

6 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 3, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED