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Worthless · Chimaira

EXERCISE 15 OF 81
2-bar fill at bar 27
91 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART F
PART L
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART AQ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesPFWASAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Worthless on drums

177 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, snare through bars 45-52, ride through bars 53-58 and snare through bars 59-70, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-35, 37-42 and 73-79, and 2 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.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 60 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 -- P, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part W -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Worthless?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Worthless hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Worthless?

20 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED