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Tornado of Souls · Megadeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 61
Groove X -- Chorus
40 / 258 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S, CHORUS, PART Z
PART G
PART K
PART G
PART K
PART S
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AD
16 groovesXKGZAD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tornado of Souls on drums

258 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-36, ride through bars 37-52, hi-hat through bars 53-72 and ride through bars 73-88, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-29, 34-35 and 53-65, and 11 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 36, 52, 72 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, W -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-17 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 70-123 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tornado of Souls?

196 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 Tornado of Souls hard to play on drums?

60 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Tornado of Souls?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 36, 52, 72 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED