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Best breakdowns in Metal history · AGGX

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove A -- Chorus
0 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART R
8 groovesARGOH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Best breakdowns in Metal history on drums

86 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-44, snare through bars 45-80, silence through bars 81-82 and snare through bars 83-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 18 and 27-40, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
Best breakdowns in Metal history -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 48, 64 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-46 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Best breakdowns in Metal history?

200 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 Best breakdowns in Metal history hard to play on drums?

62 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Best breakdowns in Metal history?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 48, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED