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Blackmail The Universe · Megadeth

EXERCISE 21 OF 54
Fill at bar 35 and 37 (a small one)
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0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
CHORUS
PART C
PART O
PART X
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAXIOC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Blackmail The Universe on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-27, hi-hat through bars 28-35 and ride through bars 36-39, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7, and 4 more places -- 17.9% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Blackmail The Universe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-77 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part O and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Blackmail The Universe?

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 Blackmail The Universe hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 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 Blackmail The Universe?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED