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Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video · Guttural Slug

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART Y
PART AE
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
13 groovesHYWLAE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video on drums

136 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
70/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-7, silence through bars 8-9, snare through bars 10-18, kick and crashes through bars 19-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-30, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 33-35 and 37-39, and 4 more places -- 21.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 48, 56, 60 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, Y -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-105 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 12-24 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-36 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video?

160 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 Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Ulcers In The Flesh Of Thought - Official Video?

11 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 18, 28, 30, 48, 56, 60 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED