Self-Destruct · Evanescence

176 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 39 more places -- 27.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SELF-DESTRUCT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 33, 39, 40 and 37 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 39-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 12 sections: 44 keep time, 43 are fills, 53 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-24.

PART C
PART K
PART C
PART B
PART M
PART B
OUTRO
9 groovesS11BCKM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self-Destruct?

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

Is Self-Destruct hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

14 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 5, 25, 33, 39, 40 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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