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Towards Dead End · Children Of Bodom

EXERCISE 5 OF 57
Groove G -- Part G
90 / 277 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART X
PART G
CHORUS 5
PART J
PART G
PART S14
PART U
BREAK
OUTRO
9 groovesBGUXJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Towards Dead End on drums

277 bars at 216 BPM -- fast, and 5:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
216 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
88/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-9, hi-hat through bars 10-21, ride through bars 22-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-33, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 10-16 and 18-21, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Towards Dead End -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 17, 34, 35, 63, 67 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-41 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part G -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Towards Dead End?

216 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Towards Dead End hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Towards Dead End?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 17, 34, 35, 63, 67 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED