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The Guillotine · Escape The Fate

EXERCISE 24 OF 40
Join Part J to Part B (bars 103-105)
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0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART B
BREAK
PART R
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCJRBG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Guillotine on drums

218 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 3-42, snare through bars 43-54, hi-hat through bars 55-90, snare through bars 91-102, hi-hat through bars 103-113 and silence through bars 114-124, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 45-46, and 10 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 41, 89, 128, 143 and 162.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- J, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 30-58 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 103-132 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Guillotine?

200 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 Guillotine hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Guillotine?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 41, 89, 128, 143 and 162.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED