Always The Hard Way · Terror

121 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcorePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 15 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 186 BPM
ALWAYS THE HARD WAY · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 121
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 4 sections: 112 keep time, 1 is a fill and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-72.

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

Questions

What BPM is Always The Hard Way?

186 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 Always The Hard Way hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Always The Hard Way?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

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