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Thrasher · Evile
EXERCISE 31 OF 54
3-bar fill at bar 72
133 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
8 groovesEFS9CA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thrasher on drums

161 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35, silence through bars 36-38, toms through bars 39-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48 and snare through bars 49-50, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 43-48 and 51-53, and 17 more places -- 50.3% 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-|
BD |xx--xx--xx--xx--|
Thrasher -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-43 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thrasher?

207 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 Thrasher hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thrasher?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED