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Thrash Metal Song · Deny Cardiff

Thrash Metal Song · Deny Cardiff
EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove I -- Chorus
0 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART M
PART G
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesIGCYM+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thrash Metal Song on drums

83 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:05 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-49, toms through bars 50-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-59, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 42-44, and 4 more places -- 26.3% 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-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Thrash Metal Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 25, 29, 32 and 11 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, Y -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-26 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thrash Metal Song?

160 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?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Thrash Metal Song?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 5, 21, 25, 29, 32 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED