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Totalimmortal (1) · AFI

EXERCISE 1 OF 44
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART E
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBEQJV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Totalimmortal (1) on drums

127 bars at 205 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
205 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
49/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-23, snare through bars 24-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-33, snare through bars 34-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-71, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 18-23, and 7 more places -- 43.5% 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
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Totalimmortal (1) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 65, 88, 89 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-26 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-61 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-79 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-103 -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Totalimmortal (1)?

205 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 Totalimmortal (1) hard to play on drums?

49 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Totalimmortal (1)?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 65, 88, 89 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED