Aggressor · Ektomorf

111 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 4 and 7-14, and 5 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
AGGRESSOR · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 11 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 57-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 65-68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

111 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 17 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 7-14.

PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesCAFLJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aggressor?

176 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 Aggressor 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Aggressor?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 53, 55, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED
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