Fast As A Shark (Live) "All Areas World-Wide" · ACCEPT

141 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
95/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 15-17, and 10 more places -- 31.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FAST AS A SHARK (LIVE) "ALL AREAS WORLD-WIDE" · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 18 and 29 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 59-60 · LANDS ON BAR 61 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

141 bars across 13 sections: 89 keep time, 35 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-17.

CHORUS
PART J
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART T
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJTSO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fast As A Shark (Live) "All Areas World-Wide"?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 (Live) "All Areas World-Wide" hard to play on drums?

95 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Fast As A Shark (Live) "All Areas World-Wide"?

10 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 18 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED
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