i need help

[tamadrummer]

well my band wants to play a megadeth song called take no prisoners and the drum beat he does in the intro is very hard and im the kinda of drummer who likes to play it the the studio does any body know how or a cheating way of doing the song cuse i dont know what the heck hes doing in the intro thanks

[hellsbells58]

Had a little bit of a listen to it Tamadrummer.

What (i think) he's doing is a cross-rhythm idea, like this:

Cr|----------------|X---|
Rd|x-x-x-x-x-x-x---|----|
Sd|o--o--o--o--oo--|----|
Bd|oooooooooooooooo|o---|


And he just develops this idea through the rest of the intro, adding some tom fills in and repeating the same crossrhythm pattern.

Hope this helps,
HB58