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Detonator · Ash

EXERCISE 3 OF 30
Groove A -- Part A
75 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCDAGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Detonator on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, snare through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-59, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 33-39 and 41-44, and 4 more places -- 42.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 52, 68 and 95.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 13-36 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-63 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Detonator?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Detonator 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Detonator?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 32, 52, 68 and 95.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED