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The Scent of Your Rotting · SHITWORKERS

EXERCISE 16 OF 46
Groove J
78 / 139 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART V
CHORUS
PART D
PART F
PART N
PART W
PART D
PART V
OUTRO
7 groovesBDFNT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Scent of Your Rotting on drums

139 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-44, ride through bars 45-60, snare through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-6 and 8-9, and 9 more places -- 17.4% 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...........
FT |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----------x-----x-----|
The Scent of Your Rotting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-37 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Scent of Your Rotting?

180 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 Scent of Your Rotting hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Scent of Your Rotting?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 39, 41, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED