Caught In A Mosh · Anthrax

248 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 10:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
10:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47, 49 and 51, and 15 more places -- 37% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 94 BPM
CAUGHT IN A MOSH · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 29, 45, 50, 90, 95 and 17 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 18 sections: 182 keep time, 23 are fills, 20 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-16.

PART A
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART G
OUTRO
11 groovesJGAAED+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Caught In A Mosh?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Caught In A Mosh 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 10:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Caught In A Mosh?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 17, 29, 45, 50, 90, 95 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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