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Dystopia · Megadeth

EXERCISE 13 OF 41
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 18-67)
140 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART P
PART U
6 groovesEBPUZ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dystopia on drums

184 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-65, ride through bars 66-83, hi-hat through bars 84-115 and ride through bars 116-135, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 13 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---x---x-------x---|
Dystopia -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 82, 115, 116 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- E, B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 82-146 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dystopia?

175 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dystopia hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Dystopia?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 65, 66, 67, 82, 115, 116 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED