Self Destruct · Evanescence

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22 and 24, and 14 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 93 BPM
SELF DESTRUCT · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 31, 35 and 11 more.

LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 93 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

90 bars across 9 sections: 60 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-16.

PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLIACHAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self Destruct?

93 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 Self Destruct hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Self Destruct?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 27, 31, 35 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED
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