Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) · Forged From Metal

232 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 4:58 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 61% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-24, 26-40 and 42-56, and 11 more places -- 61.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 187 BPM
HEART ATTACK (AJ FFM RIFF) · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 19 more.

LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 187 BPM
BARS 72-73 · LANDS ON BAR 74 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 16 sections: 181 keep time, 25 are fills, 14 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-96.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART P
OUTRO
6 groovesFBOPS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff)?

187 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 Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Heart Attack (AJ FFM riff)?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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