Operation Ground And Pound · Dragonforce

370 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 12:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
370
LENGTH
12:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64, 70-73 and 78-81, and 13 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
OPERATION GROUND AND POUND · BAR 64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 53, 61, 68 and 41 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

370 bars across 48 sections: 233 keep time, 48 are fills, 31 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 306-325.

PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 7
CHORUS 8
25 groovesPFHAAF+20Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Operation Ground And Pound?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Operation Ground And Pound hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

370 bars, about 12:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 25 sittings, about 26 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 Operation Ground And Pound?

17 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 24, 25, 33, 53, 61, 68 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 370 BARS ANALYSED
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