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Agent Thrash · Dust Bolt

Agent Thrash · Dust Bolt
EXERCISE 1 OF 74
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 47 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
CHORUS 3
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGPKWAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Agent Thrash on drums

189 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-5, silence through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-47, snare through bars 48-54, hi-hat through bars 55-80 and kick and crashes through bars 81-86, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21, and 6 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Agent Thrash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-174 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-76 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 79-89 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Agent Thrash?

225 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 Agent Thrash hard to play on drums?

64 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Agent Thrash?

18 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 16, 20 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED