Agony · Slaughter To Prevail

133 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-13, 16-17 and 38-39, and 8 more places -- 15.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
AGONY · BARS 12-13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 5-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 28-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 53-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 8 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 54 are fills, 6 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-80.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AL
CHORUS 4
8 groovesHANALO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Agony?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Agony hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

133 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 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 Agony?

14 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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