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New Thrash Song · Sam McNeill

New Thrash Song · Sam McNeill
EXERCISE 6 OF 68
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-7)
177 / 425 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Q
BREAK
PART S21
18 groovesFMLQS15+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 19
LINK · 11
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Thrash Song on drums

425 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 8:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
425
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-80 and ride through bars 81-95, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 65-80 and 193-216, and 4 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
New Thrash Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 192, 221, 225 and 229.

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, M -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-52 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-97 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 145-193 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Thrash Song?

195 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 New Thrash Song hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

425 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 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 New Thrash Song?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 192, 221, 225 and 229.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 425 BARS ANALYSED