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Date With Destiny · Pennywise

EXERCISE 8 OF 42
Groove B -- Part B
76 / 133 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesKFBGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Date With Destiny on drums

133 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
87/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-35, toms through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-39, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 14-15 and 18-19, and 18 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 25, 33 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Date With Destiny?

185 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 Date With Destiny hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 23 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 Date With Destiny?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 8, 9, 17, 25, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED