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To The Wall · Sepultura

EXERCISE 1 OF 113
Groove I -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART AV
OUTRO
17 groovesICAILAW+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 4
JOIN · 17
LINK · 12
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To The Wall on drums

296 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-5, silence through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17 and silence through bars 18-20, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-34 and 71-73, and 9 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
To The Wall -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 42, 46, 54 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S4 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-62 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is To The Wall?

220 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 To The Wall hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in To The Wall?

27 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 42, 46, 54 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED