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SOS · Dethklok

EXERCISE 7 OF 58
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
PART F
PART H
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesKSHAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SOS on drums

224 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
224
LENGTH
4:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-81, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-110, 112-117 and 120, and 9 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 48, 49, 65, 97, 104 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- S -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-50 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-120 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is SOS?

200 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 SOS hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

224 bars, about 4:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, 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 SOS?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 33, 48, 49, 65, 97, 104 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 224 BARS ANALYSED