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Disintegration / Free Money · Slayer

EXERCISE 15 OF 24
Join Part D to Break (bars 45-47)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
BREAK
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLDS1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Disintegration / Free Money on drums

85 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 1:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:29
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, ride through bars 19-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, ride through bars 39-46 and silence through bars 47-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 31-38 and 57-60, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Disintegration / Free Money -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-64 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Disintegration / Free Money?

230 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 Disintegration / Free Money hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 1:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Disintegration / Free Money?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED