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Totalimmortal · AFI

EXERCISE 22 OF 30
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 48-50)
52 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKGEIO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Totalimmortal on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
53/100

snare through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41, snare through bars 42-49 and silence through bars 50-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 42-44, and 3 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--x---x-------x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Totalimmortal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 13, 25, 26 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-15 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-24 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 48-61 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Totalimmortal?

102 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 Totalimmortal hard to play on drums?

53 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 2, 3, 4, 13, 25, 26 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED