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Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) · Reason To Scream

EXERCISE 1 OF 42
Groove C -- Chorus 2
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART P
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesCDPLA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-24, silence through bars 25-35, snare through bars 36-43, hi-hat through bars 44-47 and snare through bars 48-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 20, 30, 34, 35, 60 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 1-9 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 13-25 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life)?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life)?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 20, 30, 34, 35, 60 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED