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Addicted To Chaos · Megadeth

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 56 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Addicted To Chaos on drums

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-62 and ride through bars 63-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 43-45 and 47-61, and 2 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Addicted To Chaos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 29, 34, 42 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- F, H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 2-30 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-26 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 13 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Addicted To Chaos?

98 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 Addicted To Chaos hard to play on drums?

55 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Addicted To Chaos?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 29, 34, 42 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED