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Unidentified Corpses · Contaminant

EXERCISE 9 OF 33
Groove G -- Part G
53 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesHJLCN+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Unidentified Corpses on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-15, snare through bars 16-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, ride through bars 28-35 and snare through bars 36-48, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 40-42 and 44-46, and 2 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    76
    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--|
Unidentified Corpses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-24 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 24-74 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 28-59 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Unidentified Corpses?

150 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 Unidentified Corpses hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Unidentified Corpses?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 83 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED