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Nuclear Winter · Sodom

EXERCISE 12 OF 92
Groove A -- Part A
150 / 282 BARS COVERED
0 / 92 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Y
PART AB
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
10 groovesEIVAAB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 12
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Nuclear Winter on drums

282 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 5:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
282
LENGTH
5:23
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-36, ride through bars 37-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-70, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 18 more places -- 24.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Nuclear Winter?

210 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 Nuclear Winter hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

282 bars, about 5:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 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, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Nuclear Winter?

20 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 282 BARS ANALYSED