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Titans · Soulfly

EXERCISE 24 OF 44
Part I into Part L with the record (bars 135-142)
167 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
PART Q
PART Q
10 groovesBLQIP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Titans on drums

217 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 2-18, silence through bars 19-24, snare through bars 25-80, hi-hat through bars 81-89, snare through bars 90-121 and hi-hat through bars 122-123, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-17 and 26-32, and 16 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---x-----------x---|
Titans -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 123, 171 and 210.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-43 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 92-172 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 135-172 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Titans?

195 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 Titans hard to play on drums?

63 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Titans?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 123, 171 and 210.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED