Antichrist Superstar · Marilyn Manson

96 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:08 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

180 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

96

LENGTH

2:08

DIFFICULTY

65/100

toms through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-65, toms through bars 66-73, hi-hat through bars 74-80, toms through bars 81-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-87, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-20, and 13 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|

7 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 36, 40 and 5 more.

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. Bars 2-25 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
5. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
6. Bars 31-64 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
7. Through Part B and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
8. Bars 70-86 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
9. and 1 more sittings after that.