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Dread And The Fugitive Mind · Megadeth

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Groove D -- Part D
85 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBMSDN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dread And The Fugitive Mind on drums

178 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-41, toms through bars 42-59, hi-hat through bars 60-67 and ride through bars 68-83, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--------------o-|
SD |----F---F---X---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Dread And The Fugitive Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 85, 126, 127, 128, 162 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-40 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-86 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dread And The Fugitive Mind?

164 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 Dread And The Fugitive Mind hard to play on drums?

64 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dread And The Fugitive Mind?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 85, 126, 127, 128, 162 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED