Disarm or be Destroyed · Wolfbrigade

102 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-26 and 33-34, and 6 more places -- 54.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
DISARM OR BE DESTROYED · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 59, 77 and 1 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 77 · LANDS ON BAR 78

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 76 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-58.

PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOS2EJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disarm or be Destroyed?

190 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 Disarm or be Destroyed hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 Disarm or be Destroyed?

5 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 59, 77 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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