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Demolition · Apace

EXERCISE 12 OF 30
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 10-19)
39 / 68 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 7
PART A
14 groovesCDBS14A+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Demolition on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25 and toms through bars 26-27, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 22-23 and 28-29, and 4 more places -- 49% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 62 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 18-28 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-30 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-64 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Demolition?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Demolition hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Demolition?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 26, 27, 31, 32, 62 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED