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Tipping Point E Standard · Megadeth

EXERCISE 4 OF 93
Groove K -- Part K
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0 / 93 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART K
PART AN
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEKFANU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tipping Point E Standard on drums

193 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-10, toms through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26, kick and crashes through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42 and ride through bars 43-44, and 29 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 157-159, and 7 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    166
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
HH |o-------o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
Tipping Point E Standard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 51 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K, U -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 11-71 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-65 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-107 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part K -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tipping Point E Standard?

170 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 Tipping Point E Standard hard to play on drums?

64 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 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 Tipping Point E Standard?

26 fills to learn, played 57 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 51 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED