← SONGS

Reduced To Ash · Annihilator

EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Run C1 · Chorus (bars 6-77)
82 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 72 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCS1S3S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reduced To Ash on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:48
DIFFICULTY
89/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-77, silence through bars 78-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 16 more places -- 76.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x|
Reduced To Ash -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 53 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 7 minutes.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Reduced To Ash?

140 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 Reduced To Ash hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 5 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 Reduced To Ash?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 21, 53 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED