fight · Alethral

200 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 39 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FIGHT · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

200 bars across 13 sections: 113 keep time, 28 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 170-180.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMDAF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is fight?

180 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 fight hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 fight?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED
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