Destruction · ABACABB

143 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 22, and 3 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 215 BPM
DESTRUCTION · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 14, 21, 25, 26, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 33-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 13 sections: 66 keep time, 23 are fills, 30 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-9.

PART C
PART F
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART AA
PART Z
PART AC
PART AM
OUTRO
12 groovesQAMCAWD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Destruction?

215 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 Destruction hard to play on drums?

74 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?

143 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 Destruction?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 14, 21, 25, 26, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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