ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dethrone on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 150 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 130
LENGTH: 3:27
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-50, snare through bars 51-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-65, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 37-39, and 2 more places -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29                                               30
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |------------------------------------x-----------|------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--|x-----x--x--x--x--x-----x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|

Dethrone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 48, 56, 73 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part B and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Bars 16-48 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part K and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 29-46 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 10 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Dethrone?

150 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 Dethrone hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dethrone?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 20, 40, 48, 56, 73 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED