Beast Of Man · Arch Enemy

161 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 3 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BEAST OF MAN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 21 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 114 keep time, 27 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-119.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART AH
PART AO
9 groovesHROAHA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beast Of Man?

180 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 Beast Of Man hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 18 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beast Of Man?

19 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 4, 8, 11, 12, 14, 15 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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