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Dangerous · August Burns All The Tabs

EXERCISE 35 OF 79
Groove Z -- Part Z
85 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
CHORUS
PART O
PART Z
PART AS
PART AX
OUTRO
13 groovesDCOZAX+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dangerous on drums

170 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-29, ride through bars 30-33, snare through bars 34-47, toms through bars 48-49 and snare through bars 50-51, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 11, 15 and 19, and 7 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    146              147
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |xxxxx---x---x-xx|-xxxx---xxxxx---|
Dangerous -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 9, 16, 20, 21, 24, 26 and 54 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- D, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part S4 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dangerous?

158 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 Dangerous hard to play on drums?

64 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?

170 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Dangerous?

21 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 9, 16, 20, 21, 24, 26 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED