Disintegration / Free Money · Slayer

85 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 1:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
1:29
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-18, 31-38 and 57-60, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
DISINTEGRATION / FREE MONEY · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 1 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 230 BPM
BARS 26-30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

85 bars across 13 sections: 56 keep time, 7 are fills, 2 are stops and 13 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-18.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART L
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCLDS1S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disintegration / Free Money?

230 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 Disintegration / Free Money hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 1:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Disintegration / Free Money?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 10, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 and 1 more.

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