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Thundersteel v2 · Riot

EXERCISE 7 OF 52
Join Part B to Part C (bars 7-9)
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0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART C
9 groovesECIJB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thundersteel v2 on drums

143 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-68, snare through bars 69-78, hi-hat through bars 79-102, kick and crashes through bars 103-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-131, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 29-32 and 45-52, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-------------|--------x--x--x-|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o---------|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x-x--x--x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Thundersteel v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 43, 76, 77, 78, 82 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-32 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 53-96 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thundersteel v2?

155 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 Thundersteel v2 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 v2?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 43, 76, 77, 78, 82 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED