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Ordered To Thrash · Violator

Ordered To Thrash · Violator
EXERCISE 2 OF 62
Groove D -- Chorus 2 (a two-bar phrase)
32 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART O
PART V
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIULO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 9
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ordered To Thrash on drums

149 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-14, hi-hat through bars 15-22, ride through bars 23-30, hi-hat through bars 31-46 and ride through bars 47-54, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |------------------------------------x-----------|
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------------------|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----------------|
Ordered To Thrash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ordered To Thrash?

225 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ordered To Thrash hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 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 Ordered To Thrash?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED