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This Suffering · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
Groove K -- Part K (a two-bar phrase)
133 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJDGKS11+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Suffering on drums

160 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-47, 77-92 and 99, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 40, 76, 98, 100, 106 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-41 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This Suffering?

161 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 This Suffering hard to play on drums?

53 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 This Suffering?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 40, 76, 98, 100, 106 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED