Chemical Warfare · Slayer

288 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 5:41 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
5:41
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-41, 59-65 and 67-81, and 11 more places -- 39.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 202 BPM
CHEMICAL WARFARE · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55 and 52 more.

LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 202 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

288 bars across 17 sections: 202 keep time, 58 are fills, 2 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-41.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
8 groovesFGAMCP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Chemical Warfare?

202 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 Chemical Warfare hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 5:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Chemical Warfare?

20 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 17, 45, 47, 49, 53, 55 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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