Disciple · Slayer

149 bars at 188 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
188 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 80-86, 88-94 and 104-110, and 1 more place -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 188 BPM
DISCIPLE · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 34 and 22 more.

LOOP · 188 BPM
BARS 14-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 188 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 21 sections: 85 keep time, 28 are fills, 8 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-94.

CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
PART S
PART AA
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART AH
CHORUS 4
15 groovesEAHQSAA+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disciple?

188 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Disciple hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 23 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Disciple?

14 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 17, 21, 34 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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