A7v Mephisto · 1914

344 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
344
LENGTH
6:53
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 13-17 and 19, and 75 more places -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
A7V MEPHISTO · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

344 bars across 14 sections: 148 keep time, 35 are fills, 148 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 153-167.

CHORUS
PART I
PART P
PART W
PART AC
PART I
OUTRO
10 groovesDIACPW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A7v Mephisto?

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

Is A7v Mephisto hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

344 bars, about 6:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 17 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 A7v Mephisto?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 9, 24, 32, 40, 48 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 344 BARS ANALYSED
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