Deathrider · Anthrax

123 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-24 and 33-39, and 5 more places -- 62.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 165 BPM
DEATHRIDER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 122-123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 9 sections: 104 keep time, 2 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 66-98.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Deathrider?

165 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 Deathrider hard to play on drums?

90 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?

123 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Deathrider?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 122 and 123.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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