Attack (original drums) · 30 Seconds To Mars

137 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-38 and 59-65, and 7 more places -- 44% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 176 BPM
ATTACK (ORIGINAL DRUMS) · BARS 25-26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 70, 98, 106, 114, 119, 121 and 1 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 106 · LANDS ON BAR 107
LOOP · 176 BPM
BARS 121-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 11 sections: 69 keep time, 7 are fills, 24 are stops and 28 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-22.

COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFDS9CS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Attack (original drums)?

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

Is Attack (original drums) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Attack (original drums)?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 70, 98, 106, 114, 119, 121 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED
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