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Violent Pornography · System of a Down

EXERCISE 23 OF 39
Groove N -- Part N
93 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
VERSE
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART N
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEJAN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Violent Pornography on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-76, snare through bars 77-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-121.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11 and 111-120 -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, 41 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-48 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Violent Pornography?

142 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 Pornography hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Violent Pornography?

4 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 25, 26, 27, 28, 41 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED