Heavy Metal Universe · Gamma Ray

223 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:24 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-16, 18-26 and 28-42, and 11 more places -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
HEAVY METAL UNIVERSE · BAR 8
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 45, 69, 75, 109, 117, 119 and 6 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 119 · LANDS ON BAR 120
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 122-123 · LANDS ON BAR 124 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

223 bars across 19 sections: 135 keep time, 12 are fills, 57 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-178.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCJLHO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Heavy Metal Universe?

165 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 Heavy Metal Universe hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Heavy Metal Universe?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 45, 69, 75, 109, 117, 119 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED
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