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Damaged · John 5

Damaged · John 5
EXERCISE 9 OF 27
Fill at bar 32 and 40 (a small one)
96 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEAHLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Damaged on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, hi-hat through bars 8-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-44 and snare through bars 45-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Damaged -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 32-89 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 10-93 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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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