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The Suffering · Coheed And Cambria

EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
112 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART S
CHORUS 6
PART S
PART S
7 groovesESGOW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Suffering on drums

164 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20 and ride through bars 21-24, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49-51, and 21 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
The Suffering -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 164.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- S, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Intro -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 15-34 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-135 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Suffering?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Suffering hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Suffering?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 164.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED