Addicted To Chaos · Megadeth

132 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
132
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 43-45 and 47-61, and 2 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 98 BPM
ADDICTED TO CHAOS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 29, 34, 42 and 11 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 8 sections: 107 keep time and 18 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFHCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Addicted To Chaos?

98 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 Addicted To Chaos hard to play on drums?

55 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

132 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Addicted To Chaos?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 9, 25, 29, 34, 42 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 132 BARS ANALYSED
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