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The Final Countdown V2 · Europe

EXERCISE 3 OF 37
Groove H -- Part H
58 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART H
PART I
PART H
PART I
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHIGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Final Countdown V2 on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-101, kick and crashes through bars 102-104 and hi-hat through bars 105-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12-14 and 19-22, and 7 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----xx------xx--|
BD |xxxx--xxxxxx--xx|
The Final Countdown V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 37, 38, 61, 62 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Final Countdown V2?

120 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 The Final Countdown V2 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Final Countdown V2?

6 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 15, 16, 37, 38, 61, 62 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED