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The Reflecting God · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART I
PART J
BREAK
OUTRO
6 groovesACIS8J+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Reflecting God on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 5:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
5:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-62, snare through bars 63-64, toms through bars 65-86, silence through bars 87-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-113.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 22 and 24, and 5 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-65 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Reflecting God?

89 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 Reflecting God hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 5:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Reflecting God?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 65 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED