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Symphony Of Destruction · Megadeth

EXERCISE 4 OF 27
Groove P -- Part P
76 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO 2
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Symphony Of Destruction on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
7:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-27, ride through bars 28-35, hi-hat through bars 36-59, ride through bars 60-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-117, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Symphony Of Destruction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- C, H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-68 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part P and the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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