Dread And The Fugitive Mind · Megadeth

178 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 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 upIntermediate
TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 17 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 164 BPM
DREAD AND THE FUGITIVE MIND · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 85, 126, 127, 128, 162 and 1 more.

LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 84-85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BARS 126-128 · LANDS ON BAR 129 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 162 · LANDS ON BAR 163
LOOP · 164 BPM
BAR 178
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 10 sections: 154 keep time, 7 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-159.

CHORUS
PART D
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART H
PART M
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBMSDN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dread And The Fugitive Mind?

164 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 Dread And The Fugitive Mind hard to play on drums?

64 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Dread And The Fugitive Mind?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 84, 85, 126, 127, 128, 162 and 1 more.

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