Covering Fire · Havok

151 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-23, and 14 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
COVERING FIRE · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 61, 109, 121, 133 and 3 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 133 · LANDS ON BAR 134
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 150-151 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 12 sections: 114 keep time, 10 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKIMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Covering Fire?

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 Covering Fire hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 Covering Fire?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 61, 109, 121, 133 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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