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Self-Destruct · Kublai Khan Tx

EXERCISE 4 OF 40
Groove M -- Part M
37 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART M
PART N
PART Q
PART N
PART S10
OUTRO
10 groovesGFNQB+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Self-Destruct on drums

91 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-42, hi-hat through bars 43-56, ride through bars 57-59, hi-hat through bars 60-64 and snare through bars 65-70, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 25 and 29, and 1 more place -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------x-----|
Self-Destruct -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 42, 46 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F, G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 47-54 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-91 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Self-Destruct?

170 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?

51 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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?

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 40, 42, 46 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED