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Self Destruct · Evanescence

EXERCISE 23 OF 45
Fill at bar 43 (a small one)
66 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART H
PART I
CHORUS
PART AC
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLIACHAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self Destruct on drums

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.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-10, hi-hat through bars 11-19, snare through bars 20-27 and hi-hat through bars 28-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-----x|
Self Destruct -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- L, AA -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AA -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 54-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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