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The Shrine Of Mad Laughter · Deathspell Omega

EXERCISE 7 OF 102
Groove C (a two-bar phrase)
141 / 386 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 7
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
BREAK
CHORUS 5
PART BA
CHORUS 7
BREAK 3
14 groovesBS9BAYAC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Shrine Of Mad Laughter on drums

386 bars at 261 BPM -- fast, and 6:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
261 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
386
LENGTH
6:18
DIFFICULTY
94/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-6, toms through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, toms through bars 15-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-20, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 17-20, and 28 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 91 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 22 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Shrine Of Mad Laughter?

261 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 Shrine Of Mad Laughter hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

386 bars, about 6:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 30 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Shrine Of Mad Laughter?

23 fills to learn, played 97 times: bars 1, 7, 8, 9, 15, 16 and 91 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 386 BARS ANALYSED