Fistful of Steel · Rage Against The Machine

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 30-37, and 1 more place -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 77 BPM
FISTFUL OF STEEL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 29, 49, 68 and 3 more.

LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 77 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 77 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 12 sections: 59 keep time, 9 are fills, 2 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 87-99.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
BREAK
PART H
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesCEHS1S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fistful of Steel?

77 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 Fistful of Steel hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Fistful of Steel?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 29, 49, 68 and 3 more.

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