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To The Gory End · Cancer

To The Gory End · Cancer
EXERCISE 2 OF 49
Groove B -- Chorus
30 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDFS1H+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To The Gory End on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-17, ride through bars 18-153 and silence through bars 154-164.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 7 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
To The Gory End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 14 more.

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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To The Gory End?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 To The Gory End hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 To The Gory End?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 21, 33, 37, 49, 61, 65 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED