A Dangerous Meeting · Mercyful Fate

153 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-17, 39-45 and 47-53, and 2 more places -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 141 BPM
A DANGEROUS MEETING · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 20, 58, 62, 64, 89 and 4 more.

LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 141 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 16 sections: 89 keep time, 11 are fills, 25 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-53.

PART B
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART J
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEIAHUJ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Dangerous Meeting?

141 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 A Dangerous Meeting hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 A Dangerous Meeting?

9 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 9, 20, 58, 62, 64, 89 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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