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Train of Consequences · Megadeth

EXERCISE 3 OF 57
Fill at bar 41
40 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJSFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Train of Consequences on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-17, ride through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41 and ride through bars 42-85, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--x---xx----|
Train of Consequences -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 41, 45 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-30 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-51 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Train of Consequences?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Train of Consequences hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Train of Consequences?

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 41, 45 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED