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The Pentagram Burns · Satyricon

EXERCISE 23 OF 25
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 131-133)
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CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCMFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Pentagram Burns on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
5:30
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-49, snare through bars 50-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-57, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 45-47 and 49, and 11 more places -- 50.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |oooo-ooooooo-ooo|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
The Pentagram Burns -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 58 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-45 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-132 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Pentagram Burns?

125 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 Pentagram Burns hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 5:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pentagram Burns?

3 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 43, 44, 50, 51, 52, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED