𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 π“π‘π«πšπ¬π‘ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚π₯ 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 π“π«πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 𝐄𝐦 Β· Backing Track

208 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 33, and 21 more places -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP Β· 190 BPM
𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 π“π‘π«πšπ¬π‘ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚π₯ 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 π“π«πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 𝐄𝐦 Β· BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT β†’
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 23 more.

LOOP Β· 190 BPM
BARS 1-8 Β· LANDS ON BAR 9 Β· PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP Β· 190 BPM
BAR 16 Β· LANDS ON BAR 17 Β· PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP Β· 190 BPM
BAR 48 Β· LANDS ON BAR 49 Β· PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP Β· 190 BPM
BAR 56 Β· LANDS ON BAR 57 Β· PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT β†’
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 20 sections: 116 keep time, 29 are fills and 40 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-39.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART Q
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 8
6 groovesHQJSV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 π“π‘π«πšπ¬π‘ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚π₯ 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 π“π«πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 𝐄𝐦?

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

Is 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 π“π‘π«πšπ¬π‘ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚π₯ 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 π“π«πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 𝐄𝐦 hard to play on drums?

57 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐞 π“π‘π«πšπ¬π‘ 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐚π₯ 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐀𝐒𝐧𝐠 π“π«πšπœπ€ 𝐒𝐧 𝐄𝐦?

6 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF Β· 208 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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