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Violent by Nature · Atrophy

EXERCISE 9 OF 63
Groove E
88 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART F
PART A
PART F
PART A
PART F
CHORUS
PART I
PART V
PART F
OUTRO
5 groovesKAFIVFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Violent by Nature on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 1-33, snare through bars 34-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 30, and 18 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Violent by Nature -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 19-52 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Violent by Nature?

140 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 Violent by Nature hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Violent by Nature?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED