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Attack · System of a Down

EXERCISE 22 OF 40
Fill at bar 79
102 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesCIOBS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Attack on drums

126 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-66, snare through bars 67-78 and hi-hat through bars 79-91, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-24 and 67-78 -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 50, 79, 101 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 53-81 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 96-111 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Attack?

164 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 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Attack?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 26, 34, 50, 79, 101 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED