1984 · Slaughter To Prevail

153 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21, 67 and 129-144 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
1984 · BARS 129-130
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 29 and 36 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 3-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 18 sections: 64 keep time, 42 are fills, 21 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-143.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AA
PART AE
CHORUS 2
PART S15
PART M
OUTRO
14 groovesQAAAEMS15+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1984?

186 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 1984 hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 1984?

14 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 25, 29 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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