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Operation Ground And Pound · Dragonforce

EXERCISE 8 OF 106
2-bar fill at bar 24
181 / 370 BARS COVERED
0 / 106 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 5
BREAK 5
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
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 24
LINK · 5
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Operation Ground And Pound on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
370
LENGTH
12:20
DIFFICULTY
78/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, silence through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33 and ride through bars 34-39, and 32 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Operation Ground And Pound -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 3 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-39 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 38-54 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 63-109 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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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