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Your Only · Slaughter To Prevail

EXERCISE 22 OF 74
Part H into Chorus with the record (bars 20-27)
98 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS
PART U
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART S9
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesNHS9UAO+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Only on drums

161 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
58/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-42, hi-hat through bars 43-55, snare through bars 56-111, toms through bars 112-117 and snare through bars 118-153, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-31, 34-39 and 71-76, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26               27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|--x---x---x-x-x-|
Your Only -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 25, 32 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-24 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 43-71 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Only?

170 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 Your Only hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 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 Your Only?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 20, 25, 32 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED