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Attack (original drums) · 30 Seconds To Mars

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove F -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDS9CS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Attack (original drums) on drums

137 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40, silence through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 59-65, and 7 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|------x---------|
BD |x-----x---------|x-x-------x---x-|
Attack (original drums) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 70, 98, 106, 114, 119, 121 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-50 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-107 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Attack (original drums)?

176 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 Attack (original drums) hard to play on drums?

46 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Attack (original drums)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 70, 98, 106, 114, 119, 121 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED