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Attack · 30 Seconds to Mars

EXERCISE 14 OF 25
Join Part C to Break 2 (bars 27-29)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, BREAK 2
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesECS1S8J+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Attack on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, snare through bars 15-21, hi-hat through bars 22-31, snare through bars 32-37 and silence through bars 38-41, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 17, and 13 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----------------x---x-|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Attack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 47, 51, 55 and 59.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-38 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 42-48 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Attack?

85 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Attack hard to play on drums?

61 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Attack?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 47, 51, 55 and 59.

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