Crisis · Fear Factory

158 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 4:01 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40, 42-50 and 52, and 17 more places -- 31.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 157 BPM
CRISIS · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 51, 57, 70 and 14 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 70-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 12 sections: 102 keep time, 20 are fills, 4 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-50.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLES11CR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Crisis?

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 Crisis hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Crisis?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 20, 36, 37, 51, 57, 70 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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