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Twisted · Dimebag Darrell

Twisted · Dimebag Darrell
EXERCISE 12 OF 28
2-bar fill at bar 22
57 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesECBJFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Twisted on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, snare through bars 14-23, hi-hat through bars 24-31 and snare through bars 32-41, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-21, 36-39 and 58-65 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Twisted -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 22, 23, 31, 45, 53 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-45 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-57 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Twisted?

83 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 Twisted hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Twisted?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 22, 23, 31, 45, 53 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED