Fatal Illusion · Megadeth

144 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 49-51, and 9 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 122 BPM
FATAL ILLUSION · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18 and 11 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 20 sections: 95 keep time, 17 are fills, 10 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-97.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMTPRA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fatal Illusion?

122 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 Fatal Illusion 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 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 Fatal Illusion?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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