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Thrash Metal Song · Andrej Sitkarev

Thrash Metal Song · Andrej Sitkarev
EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove K -- Chorus
0 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 46 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKHS12BW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thrash Metal Song on drums

178 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-44 and snare through bars 45-47, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 7 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Thrash Metal Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thrash Metal Song?

190 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 Thrash Metal Song hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Thrash Metal Song?

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED