Desperado (Metal Version) · Alice Cooper

114 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 70% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-28, 30-32 and 34-52, and 3 more places -- 69.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 120 BPM
DESPERADO (METAL VERSION) · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

114 bars across 5 sections: 80 keep time, 1 is a fill, 24 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-32.

CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBS5FS3S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Desperado (Metal Version)?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Desperado (Metal Version) hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 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 Desperado (Metal Version)?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

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