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The Gears · Dethklok

EXERCISE 26 OF 39
Fill at bar 105
193 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Gears on drums

202 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 2-33, toms through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-73, toms through bars 74-81, hi-hat through bars 82-96 and toms through bars 97-105, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 42-56 and 82-88, and 9 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Gears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 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.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-45 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-101 -- 10 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 105-141 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Gears?

194 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 Gears hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Gears?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED