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The Satanist · Behemoth

EXERCISE 20 OF 62
Run D1 · Part D (bars 11-16)
110 / 153 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART D
PART E
PART S4
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART W
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPADRAW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 6
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Satanist on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 5:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:28
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-25, silence through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-97 and silence through bars 98-104, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-47, 57-71 and 89-95 -- 26.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- P -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-19 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-33 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Satanist?

112 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 Satanist hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Satanist?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED