Dawn Patrol · Megadeth

33 bars, 1:43, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
33
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 73% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 5 more places -- 72.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 75 BPM
DAWN PATROL · BARS 2-3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

33 bars: 31 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-33.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dawn Patrol?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Dawn Patrol hard to play on drums?

45 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

33 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 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 Dawn Patrol?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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