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Termonuclear · Perfecto Miserable

EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Groove C
119 / 176 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
5 groovesBIAOKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Termonuclear on drums

176 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 3:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-42, snare through bars 43-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-65, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 13-16 and 19-20, and 18 more places -- 38.1% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Termonuclear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 58, 94, 109, 110, 111 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B, A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-70 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Chorus 4 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Termonuclear?

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

Is Termonuclear hard to play on drums?

56 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Termonuclear?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 26, 58, 94, 109, 110, 111 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED