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Welcome To Sludge City · Annotations Of An Autopsy

Welcome To Sludge City · Annotations Of An Autopsy
EXERCISE 12 OF 58
Fill at bar 17 (a small one)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART N
PART Q
PART P
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEPZAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Welcome To Sludge City on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-29, ride through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-59, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 7 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x---------------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---|
Welcome To Sludge City -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- B, Y -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 4-13 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Welcome To Sludge City?

130 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 Welcome To Sludge City hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 16 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 Welcome To Sludge City?

12 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 7, 9, 13, 15 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED