Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) · Reason To Scream

100 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 17-19 and 21-23, and 6 more places -- 36.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
FEAST UPON AN ATOM BOMB (BEG FOR YOUR LIFE) · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 20, 30, 34, 35, 60 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 34-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 15 sections: 67 keep time, 9 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-43.

PART D
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART P
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesCDPLA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life)?

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 Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life) hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 Feast Upon An Atom Bomb (Beg For Your Life)?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 14, 20, 30, 34, 35, 60 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED
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