Destroyer · Parkway Drive

152 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 57-63 and 90-95, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
DESTROYER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 51, 52, 64, 71, 72 and 15 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 71-72 · LANDS ON BAR 73 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 21 are fills, 20 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-47.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART H
CHORUS 3
PART AD
PART AG
PART AJ
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesFHAOS2AJ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Destroyer?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Destroyer hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Destroyer?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 48, 51, 52, 64, 71, 72 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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