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Post American World · Megadeth

EXERCISE 16 OF 60
Run E1 · Chorus (bars 10-25)
86 / 150 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
PART K
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART S9
PART P
PART U
PART X
PART H
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEHKXP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 10
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Post American World on drums

150 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, ride through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, ride through bars 66-81 and silence through bars 82-89, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------o---------------o---------------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-----------------------x-------x-----------------------|
Post American World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 33, 41, 65 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-34 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 10-37 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part K and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-90 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Post American World?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Post American World hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Post American World?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 9, 25, 33, 41, 65 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 150 BARS ANALYSED