Antihero · God Forbid

146 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 28, and 12 more places -- 21.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
ANTIHERO · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 23, 25, 29 and 35 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 21 sections: 78 keep time, 41 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-21.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 5
PART AA
PART F
CHORUS 6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDFJAAZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Antihero?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Antihero hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Antihero?

18 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 23, 25, 29 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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