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Reckoning Day · Megadeth

EXERCISE 33 OF 47
Run G2 · Part G (bars 67-80)
132 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART C
PART G
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGCPJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reckoning Day on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
75/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-68, ride through bars 69-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 105-136 -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-53 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 46-66 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 63-85 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Reckoning Day?

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 Reckoning Day hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Reckoning Day?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED