Fast As A Shark · Accept

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 12-14, and 10 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FAST AS A SHARK · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 23 and 32 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

119 bars across 11 sections: 68 keep time, 39 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-64.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGQLN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast As A Shark?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fast As A Shark hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Fast As A Shark?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 23 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED
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