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Looking Down The Barrel Of Today · Hatebreed

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Groove K
96 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJGCFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Looking Down The Barrel Of Today on drums

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
120
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22-24, and 18 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-----x---x-x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|
Looking Down The Barrel Of Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 29, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-36 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-95 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Looking Down The Barrel Of Today?

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 Looking Down The Barrel Of Today 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Looking Down The Barrel Of Today?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 29, 32, 40, 48, 56 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED