Am I Evil? · Diamond Head

281 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 10:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
281
LENGTH
10:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 138, 140 and 142, and 47 more places -- 29.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
AM I EVIL? · BAR 138
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 100, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 7 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 130 · LANDS ON BAR 131
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

281 bars across 15 sections: 215 keep time, 14 are fills, 15 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 195-231.

PART A
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS
8 groovesRHEAS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Am I Evil??

110 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 Am I Evil? hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

281 bars, about 10:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Am I Evil??

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 64, 100, 126, 130, 132, 134 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 281 BARS ANALYSED
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