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Lords of Destruction · TYRANID

EXERCISE 5 OF 53
Groove V -- Part V
39 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V, OUTRO
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART Q
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEVMQH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Lords of Destruction on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-20, hi-hat through bars 21-46, snare through bars 47-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-54, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-26, and 8 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Lords of Destruction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 27, 28, 32 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-21 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-35 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Lords of Destruction?

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 Lords of Destruction hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 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 Lords of Destruction?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 27, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED