ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Doomed on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 140 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 165
LENGTH: 4:43
DIFFICULTY: 71/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-66, silence through bars 67-89, hi-hat through bars 90-114, silence through bars 115-121 and toms through bars 122-165.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-48, 50-56 and 58-64, and 4 more places -- 35.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    42                                               43
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
T2 |------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------x-------|
FT |------------x---x-------------------x---x-------|------------x---x---------------x-------x-------|
BD |--------------------x-----------------------x---|--------------------x-------x-------x-------x---|

The Doomed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 49, 57, 97 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part B and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
Bars 42-114 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is The Doomed?

140 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 Doomed hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Doomed?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 49, 57, 97 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED