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Ironbound · Overkill

EXERCISE 1 OF 94
Groove F -- Part F
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PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
PART R
PART AC
PART AN
CHORUS 3
PART F
15 groovesIFLRAN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 14
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ironbound on drums

278 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 5:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
278
LENGTH
5:37
DIFFICULTY
74/100

toms through bars 1-11, hi-hat through bars 12-67, snare through bars 68-70, silence through bars 71-73, hi-hat through bars 74-104 and snare through bars 105-112, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-26, 28-30 and 48-50, and 6 more places -- 17.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Ironbound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 47 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-70 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-97 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ironbound?

198 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 Ironbound hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

278 bars, about 5:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 21 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 Ironbound?

20 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 10, 11, 27, 31, 35, 47 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 278 BARS ANALYSED