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The Last Relapse · All Shall Perish

EXERCISE 18 OF 72
Groove J -- Part J
48 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
PART A
PART E
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART W
CHORUS
BREAK
PART AF
PART AM
OUTRO
12 groovesAAAFAMRAL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 4
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Relapse on drums

133 bars, 7:22, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
7:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-55, hi-hat through bars 56-57, snare through bars 58-59, hi-hat through bars 60-61 and snare through bars 62-63, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 106-108, 110-112 and 114-116, and 1 more place -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    106                              107
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-----------x-x-|----------------x-----------xxxx|
BD |x-x---------xxxx--x---x-x-x-----|x-x---------xxxx------x-x-------|
The Last Relapse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 18, 20 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AM, AA -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Relapse?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Last Relapse hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 7:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Last Relapse?

14 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 2, 5, 6, 8, 18, 20 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED