Axe To Fall · Converge

61 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 1:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:21
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 27-29, and 1 more place -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 178 BPM
AXE TO FALL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 24, 49, 52 and 4 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 52-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 7 sections: 32 keep time, 10 are fills, 14 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-21.

CHORUS
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBNIGS6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Axe To Fall?

178 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 Axe To Fall hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Axe To Fall?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 7, 22, 24, 49, 52 and 4 more.

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