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Thy Horror Cosmic · The Black Dahlia Murder

EXERCISE 2 OF 50
Groove M -- Part M
21 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEMCJO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thy Horror Cosmic on drums

103 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 102 BPM, 3:02 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
86/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, ride through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24 and ride through bars 25-26, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17, 19 and 23, and 12 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Thy Horror Cosmic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 40, 54, 62 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-58 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thy Horror Cosmic?

102 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Thy Horror Cosmic hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 15 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 Thy Horror Cosmic?

10 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 10, 18, 40, 54, 62 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED