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Tormentor · Kreator

EXERCISE 25 OF 26
Run O1 · Outro 2 (bars 63-69)
66 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDKOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tormentor on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
84/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-40, kick and crashes through bars 41-44, snare through bars 45-67 and toms through bars 68-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-13, and 18 more places -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--xx--|
HF |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Tormentor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 20, 26, 32 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-57 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Tormentor?

97 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 Tormentor hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Tormentor?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 16, 18, 20, 26, 32 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED