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The Boy Who Destroyed The World · AFI

EXERCISE 11 OF 43
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 10-12)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCURFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Boy Who Destroyed The World on drums

118 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-7, ride through bars 8-11 and hi-hat through bars 12-25, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 13, and 17 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---xx|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x--|
The Boy Who Destroyed The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 19, 26, 27 and 18 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-79 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Boy Who Destroyed The World?

167 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 The Boy Who Destroyed The World hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 The Boy Who Destroyed The World?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 19, 26, 27 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED