Agent Orange · Sodom

287 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 6:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
6:26
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-50, 52-54 and 56-58, and 21 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 178 BPM
AGENT ORANGE · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 82 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 28-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 19 sections: 164 keep time, 88 are fills, 17 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-8.

PART J
CHORUS
PART AA
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART AI
PART AQ
PART AU
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesXAAAIAUAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Agent Orange?

178 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 Agent Orange hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 6:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 Agent Orange?

23 fills to learn, played 88 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 21, 25 and 82 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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