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Destroyer · Parkway Drive

EXERCISE 4 OF 72
Groove AG -- Part AG (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AG
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
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Destroyer on drums

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.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
73/100

silence through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-99, toms through bars 100-105, hi-hat through bars 106-149 and toms through bars 150-152.

The beat

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.

    26
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------x-------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---x-----------|
Destroyer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-36 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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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