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Symmetry · Dethklok

EXERCISE 23 OF 38
Join Chorus 2 to Part L (bars 47-49)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART L
PART A
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS10HFQC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symmetry on drums

112 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 4:28 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
46/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32, toms through bars 33-36 and snare through bars 37-40, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 41-48 and 57-59, and 1 more place -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Symmetry -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-17 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-37 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-53 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-61 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Symmetry?

150 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Symmetry hard to play on drums?

46 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Symmetry?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED