Destroy Me · PRESIDENT

91 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 1 more place -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
DESTROY ME · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 14, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 16 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 31-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-24.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
PART S5
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesGBS5XS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Destroy Me?

150 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 Destroy Me 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?

91 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Destroy Me?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 12, 14, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 16 more.

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