Creeping Death if Lars locked in · Lars if he was good

329 bars at 214 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
214 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
329
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74, 76-78 and 80-82, and 17 more places -- 13.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 214 BPM
CREEPING DEATH IF LARS LOCKED IN · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 41, 43, 44 and 52 more.

LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 214 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 214 BPM
BARS 43-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

329 bars across 24 sections: 194 keep time, 58 are fills, 42 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 289-305.

PART F
PART P
PART P
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Z
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART AF
12 groovesTFPAFZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Creeping Death if Lars locked in?

214 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 Creeping Death if Lars locked in hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

329 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Creeping Death if Lars locked in?

15 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 24, 25, 29, 41, 43, 44 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 329 BARS ANALYSED
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