A Secret Place · Megadeth

171 bars of 4/4 at 131 BPM, about 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 46-47, 49-51 and 53-55, and 14 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 131 BPM
A SECRET PLACE · BAR 46
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 26 more.

LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 16-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 131 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 13 sections: 116 keep time, 32 are fills, 1 is a stop and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-91.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesPAKJS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Secret Place?

131 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Secret Place hard to play on drums?

54 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Secret Place?

8 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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