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Thrash Till Death · Destruction

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove D -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART K
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesDKGAM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thrash Till Death on drums

193 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40, ride through bars 41-56, hi-hat through bars 57-84 and ride through bars 85-108, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-31 and 41-55, and 2 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-x-xxx-xxx-xxx-|
Thrash Till Death -- 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 8, 16, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 11 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-37 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-44 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-71 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Bars 138-193 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thrash Till Death?

187 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 Till Death hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Till Death?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 36, 40, 56 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED