Best breakdowns in Metal history · AGGX

86 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 18 and 27-40, and 5 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BEST BREAKDOWNS IN METAL HISTORY · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 48, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

86 bars across 8 sections: 54 keep time, 12 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-44.

PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART R
8 groovesARGOH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Best breakdowns in Metal history?

200 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 Best breakdowns in Metal history hard to play on drums?

62 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Best breakdowns in Metal history?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 5, 7, 9, 48, 64 and 6 more.

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