Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne · 1914

302 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 6:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
302
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-15, 19-23 and 67-71, and 3 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ARRIVAL. THE MEUSE-ARGONNE · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 44 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

302 bars across 46 sections: 119 keep time, 51 are fills, 70 are stops and 47 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 287-293.

PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S11
PART X
PART X
PART F
OUTRO 2
27 groovesBOFKX+22Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

302 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 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 Arrival. The Meuse-Argonne?

15 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 16, 17, 24 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 302 BARS ANALYSED
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