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Tipping Point · Megadeth

EXERCISE 14 OF 89
Groove F -- Part F
76 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART F
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART F
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJAQFALT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 23
LAND · 23
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tipping Point on drums

193 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
72/100

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 35-62 and snare through bars 63-64, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 45-46, and 8 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Tipping Point -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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 -- J, AQ -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 20-65 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-107 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tipping Point?

169 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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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?

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED