Gung Ho · Anthrax

173 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 33-40 and 57-64, and 3 more places -- 28.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
GUNG HO · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 16 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 16 sections: 127 keep time, 22 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-24.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDJGAAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gung Ho?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Gung Ho hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Gung Ho?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 32, 48, 56, 72, 80 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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