BANDITOS · Slaughter to Prevail

197 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 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
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 35-36 and 38-40, and 2 more places -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BANDITOS · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 9 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 24 sections: 124 keep time, 15 are fills, 27 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-98.

PART G
CHORUS 2
PART AW
PART AY
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBVGAWN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BANDITOS?

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 BANDITOS hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 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 BANDITOS?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 18, 25, 26 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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