Wreckage · Parkway Drive

114 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 18-20 and 22-24, and 6 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 142 BPM
WRECKAGE · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 18 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 10 sections: 62 keep time, 25 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART O
PART S7
PART O
OUTRO
7 groovesBOHAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Wreckage?

142 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Wreckage hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Wreckage?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 17, 21, 25, 33, 37 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED
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