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The Thrash of Naked Limbs · My Dying Bride

EXERCISE 1 OF 89
Groove O -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
PART I
CHORUS
PART AI
PART AD
PART V
PART V
OUTRO
11 groovesOIAPVAI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Thrash of Naked Limbs on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 8:23 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
8:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-57, snare through bars 58-61, hi-hat through bars 62-77 and kick and crashes through bars 78-82, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-52, 54 and 56, and 4 more places -- 11.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50                                               51
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------x-----------|------x-----------------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----------------------x-----|x-----------------x-----------x-x-x-------x-----|
The Thrash of Naked Limbs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 35, 41, 49 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 67 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 -- O, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-123 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Thrash of Naked Limbs?

85 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 Thrash of Naked Limbs hard to play on drums?

56 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 8:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Thrash of Naked Limbs?

21 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 25, 33, 35, 41, 49 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED