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Countdown To Extinction · Megadeth

EXERCISE 8 OF 40
Groove F -- Part F
95 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART D
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLHDQU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Countdown To Extinction on drums

135 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-46, snare through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-66 and ride through bars 67-84, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-46 and 71-77, and 5 more places -- 39.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Countdown To Extinction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- L, H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-36 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 47-87 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Countdown To Extinction?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Countdown To Extinction hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Countdown To Extinction?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 20, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED