Architecture Of Aggression · Megadeth

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 23-30 and 60-67 -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ARCHITECTURE OF AGGRESSION · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 15, 21, 22, 32 and 8 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

77 bars across 13 sections: 42 keep time, 14 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-66.

CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART L
PART N
PART P
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCENGH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Architecture Of Aggression?

95 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 Architecture Of Aggression hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Architecture Of Aggression?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 3, 5, 15, 21, 22, 32 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED
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