Symphony Of Destruction · Megadeth

136 bars, 7:45, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21 and 23, and 12 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
SYMPHONY OF DESTRUCTION · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 67, 76, 77, 125, 134 and 1 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BARS 76-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 115 keep time, 7 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-117.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART P
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCHPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Symphony Of Destruction?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Symphony Of Destruction hard to play on drums?

49 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 7:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Symphony Of Destruction?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 35, 67, 76, 77, 125, 134 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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