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Thrashaholic · Gama Bomb

Thrashaholic · Gama Bomb
EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Join Part A to Chorus (bars 3-5)
86 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thrashaholic on drums

105 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
94/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-102 and snare through bars 103-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 12 and 15-21, and 7 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-x-----|
Thrashaholic -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thrashaholic?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Thrashaholic hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Thrashaholic?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED