Hangar 18 · Megadeth

185 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:37 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 33-52 and 73-92 -- 30.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HANGAR 18 · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 56, 71 and 16 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 21 sections: 128 keep time, 22 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 73-92.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART P
9 groovesAKPVX+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hangar 18?

160 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 Hangar 18 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 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 Hangar 18?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 32, 56, 71 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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