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Destruction · ABACABB

Destruction · ABACABB
EXERCISE 4 OF 75
Groove F -- Part F
18 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART F
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
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Destruction on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-24, toms through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-43 and silence through bars 44-45, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-35 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 12-33 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part S5 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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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