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Irreversal · Killswitch Engage

EXERCISE 16 OF 78
Groove H
87 / 201 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART Q, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART O
PART Q
PART K
PART O
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART AH
OUTRO 2
12 groovesFOAHALQ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Irreversal on drums

201 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
201
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 2-114, ride through bars 115-143, silence through bars 144-157, hi-hat through bars 158-192 and snare through bars 193-201.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 22 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Irreversal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 20, 32, 34 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Irreversal?

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 Irreversal hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

201 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Irreversal?

14 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 20, 32, 34 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 201 BARS ANALYSED