BFG 10k · Mick Gordon

128 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 3:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 23 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BFG 10K · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 20, 21, 25, 49, 55 and 12 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 18 sections: 55 keep time, 19 are fills, 8 are stops and 37 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-85.

BREAK 2
CHORUS
PART G
PART S8
CHORUS 2
PART S10
PART M
CHORUS 3
BREAK 6
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesDGS8S10M+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is BFG 10k?

157 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 BFG 10k hard to play on drums?

57 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 BFG 10k?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 13, 20, 21, 25, 49, 55 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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