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Threshold · Slayer

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 46 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesBMGQV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Threshold on drums

108 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-15, hi-hat through bars 16-28, ride through bars 29-40, snare through bars 41-57 and silence through bars 58-60, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 7 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 52, 69 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-44 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-57 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-77 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Threshold?

191 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 Threshold hard to play on drums?

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in 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?

108 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Threshold?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 52, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED