Distortion · Babymetal

149 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 3:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-41, 75-81 and 116-122 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
DISTORTION · BARS 35-36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 1-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 18 sections: 88 keep time, 40 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART P
PART S
PART A
PART D
PART P
CHORUS 3
11 groovesGPSLW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Distortion?

196 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 Distortion hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Distortion?

17 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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