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Strike Of The Beast · Exodus

EXERCISE 18 OF 72
Groove M
124 / 183 BARS COVERED
0 / 72 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
CHORUS 8
PART K
OUTRO
10 groovesHKAJS2S20+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Strike Of The Beast on drums

183 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
183
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
99/100

hi-hat through bars 3-10, ride through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22, ride through bars 23-26, hi-hat through bars 27-30 and ride through bars 31-34, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 23-25, and 20 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Strike Of The Beast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-19 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-39 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-55 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-82 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-93 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Strike Of The Beast?

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

Is Strike Of The Beast hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

183 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Strike Of The Beast?

23 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 14 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 183 BARS ANALYSED