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Complete Collapse · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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0 / 42 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCUEBH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Complete Collapse on drums

127 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, snare through bars 46-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and snare through bars 62-77, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 19 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-|
Complete Collapse -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 11 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, U -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 47-86 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Complete Collapse?

163 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 Complete Collapse hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Complete Collapse?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 33, 37, 41 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED