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Adrenaline · Shinedown

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove H -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHACFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Adrenaline on drums

135 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, toms through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-50, toms through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29, 31 and 33-37, and 15 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Adrenaline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 46, 54 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, A -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-29 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-55 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 86-100 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Adrenaline?

160 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 Adrenaline hard to play on drums?

59 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Adrenaline?

7 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 20, 28, 32, 40, 46, 54 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED