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Destruction · Foreground Eclipse

EXERCISE 11 OF 72
Fill at bar 10, 14 and 142 (a small one)
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PART F
PART L
PART N
CHORUS
PART V
PART Y
PART AB
PART AG
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesRFABNAG+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Destruction on drums

150 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-57, hi-hat through bars 58-62 and kick and crashes through bars 63-66, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-57 and 115-121, and 1 more place -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Destruction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- R, C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-25 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-34 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-46 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Destruction?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth 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?

60 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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?

14 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED