Self destruction · Raw Flesh

74 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:41
DIFFICULTY
35/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 79% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9, 12-27 and 30-37, and 2 more places -- 78.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 110 BPM
SELF DESTRUCTION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 8 sections: 67 keep time, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 48-74.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDS2S4S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Self destruction?

110 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 destruction hard to play on drums?

35 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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