Fight To Survive · Azyrius

124 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-45 and 64-79 -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 176 BPM
FIGHT TO SURVIVE · BAR 30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 53 and 7 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 13 sections: 81 keep time, 13 are fills, 13 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-45.

PART D
PART B
PART S4
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART I
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHDILB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight To Survive?

176 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 To Survive hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 To Survive?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 5, 17, 21, 29, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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