A# Death Metal · Gesh

135 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 49-63, and 4 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
A# DEATH METAL · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 64, 88, 108, 116, 124 and 3 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 124 · LANDS ON BAR 125
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 7 sections: 116 keep time, 9 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-63.

CHORUS
PART H
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAQKHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A# Death Metal?

180 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 A# Death Metal hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 A# Death Metal?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 64, 88, 108, 116, 124 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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