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Vile Decomposition · Cystotomy

EXERCISE 15 OF 53
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 16-18)
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0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFIAQB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Vile Decomposition on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, ride through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-41, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 8 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x-x---------x-------|
Vile Decomposition -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 29, 41, 45, 49, 53 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 14-29 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Vile Decomposition?

148 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 Vile Decomposition hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Vile Decomposition?

9 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 29, 41, 45, 49, 53 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED