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The Breakers Origin - Devastator · For Today

EXERCISE 14 OF 50
4-bar fill at bar 33
51 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART G
PART N
PART P
PART T
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesABBTGN+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Breakers Origin - Devastator on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-32, toms through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-57 and kick and crashes through bars 58-59, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 9 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
FT |x-----------x-------------------|
BD |x-----------x-------------------|
The Breakers Origin - Devastator -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 33, 34, 35, 36, 67 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, AB -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part N -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part G and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Breakers Origin - Devastator?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 The Breakers Origin - Devastator hard to play on drums?

63 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 9 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 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 The Breakers Origin - Devastator?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 20, 33, 34, 35, 36, 67 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED