Atlas, Rise!. · MetallicA

157 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 19-20, and 14 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
ATLAS, RISE!. · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 21, 31, 33 and 48 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 21 sections: 77 keep time, 54 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART X
PART AL
OUTRO
10 groovesGMPQAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Atlas, Rise!.?

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 Atlas, Rise!. hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Atlas, Rise!.?

17 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 9, 12, 13, 21, 31, 33 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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