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Ashes · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGNTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes on drums

162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-35, snare through bars 36-50, toms through bars 51-53 and hi-hat through bars 54-59, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-16 and 36-42, and 9 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 27, 35, 43 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-115 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ashes?

180 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 Ashes hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ashes?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 27, 35, 43 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED