Damaged · John 5

128 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 64% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 33-39, and 7 more places -- 63.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 168 BPM
DAMAGED · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 32, 40 and 13 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 6 sections: 70 keep time, 22 are fills, 28 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAHLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Damaged?

168 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 Damaged hard to play on drums?

57 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Damaged?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 32, 40 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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