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Den of Thieves · AUGUST BURNS RED

EXERCISE 12 OF 112
Join Part A to Part H (bars 7-9)
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0 / 112 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART H
PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART AI
PART BK
OUTRO 2
19 groovesWAQOBQAI+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 4
JOIN · 21
LINK · 10
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Den of Thieves on drums

181 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 3:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
79/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-22, toms through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-32, and 27 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-36, 73 and 75, and 2 more places -- 6.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Den of Thieves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- O -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AQ -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 7-17 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Den of Thieves?

195 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Den of Thieves hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 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 Den of Thieves?

21 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 15, 16 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED