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Ten Thousand Fists · Disturbed

EXERCISE 27 OF 48
Groove S -- Part S
61 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART A
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLGAEW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ten Thousand Fists on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-35, toms through bars 36-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    29               30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
FT |----------------|--------------f-|
BD |xx-xxxxxxx-xxxxx|xx-xxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Ten Thousand Fists -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 32 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-49 -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 55-70 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ten Thousand Fists?

107 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Ten Thousand Fists hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Ten Thousand Fists?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED