Holy Mountains · System of a Down

196 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 5:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
196
LENGTH
5:22
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 63-75, 104-117 and 167-179 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
HOLY MOUNTAINS · BARS 63-64
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 51, 52, 53 and 21 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BARS 51-53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 129 · LANDS ON BAR 130

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

196 bars across 19 sections: 117 keep time, 27 are fills, 18 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 32-50.

COUNT-IN
PART F
PART N
PART F
PART N
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBNFVS1+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Mountains?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Holy Mountains hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

196 bars, about 5:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 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 Holy Mountains?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 51, 52, 53 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 196 BARS ANALYSED
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