Gagged With Propaganda · Acrania

160 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 2:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
2:22
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40, 42 and 70-85 -- 11.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 270 BPM
GAGGED WITH PROPAGANDA · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 270 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 17 sections: 93 keep time, 21 are fills, 22 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 71-85.

PART G
PART H
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART S13
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
14 groovesRGCLS13+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gagged With Propaganda?

270 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 Gagged With Propaganda hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 2:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Gagged With Propaganda?

11 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 19, 23, 27, 36, 43, 44 and 15 more.

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