Adapt or Die · Forbidden

238 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-46, 65-70 and 72-86, and 2 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 184 BPM
ADAPT OR DIE · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 7, 18, 19, 47, 48, 49 and 56 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 47-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 55-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 9 TIMES

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

238 bars across 14 sections: 132 keep time, 63 are fills, 23 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 31-46.

PART D
CHORUS
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART AE
PART AM
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesOAESAMD+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Adapt or Die?

184 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 Adapt or Die hard to play on drums?

63 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 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Adapt or Die?

24 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 7, 18, 19, 47, 48, 49 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED
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