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Tyrannical Decay. 2 · Pathology

Tyrannical Decay. 2 · Pathology
EXERCISE 9 OF 47
Fill at bar 16 (a small one)
63 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDASIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tyrannical Decay. 2 on drums

95 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:00 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
89/100

hi-hat through bars 1-29, snare through bars 30-32, ride through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-72, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 37-40 and 43, and 6 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 42, 44 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tyrannical Decay. 2?

190 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 Tyrannical Decay. 2 hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Tyrannical Decay. 2?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 42, 44 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED