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Indestructible · Disturbed

EXERCISE 21 OF 36
Join Chorus 2 to Break (bars 73-75)
150 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, BREAK
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART G
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGNFS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indestructible on drums

177 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-36, toms through bars 37-48, snare through bars 49-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 10 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- A, G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-95 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Indestructible?

180 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 Indestructible hard to play on drums?

51 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?

177 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Indestructible?

5 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 12, 49, 50, 51, 52 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED