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Thundersteel · Riot

EXERCISE 1 OF 53
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 53 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART C
9 groovesECMSI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thundersteel on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
92/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-79, ride through bars 80-93, hi-hat through bars 94-130, snare through bars 131-136 and kick and crashes through bars 137-144.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------X-----x-----X-----x-----X-----x-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------x-----------x--x--------|
Thundersteel -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 79, 87, 91, 92 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-68 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thundersteel?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Thundersteel hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Thundersteel?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 79, 87, 91, 92 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED