For Horsemen · Beatallica

79 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 1:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
1:35
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 27-41 and 53-67 -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
FOR HORSEMEN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 42 and 68.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 63 keep time, 3 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For Horsemen?

200 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 For Horsemen hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 1:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 For Horsemen?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 42 and 68.

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