Holy Wars... The Punishment Due · Megadeth

255 bars at 167 BPM -- fast, and 6:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
167 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
6:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-14, 19-24 and 33-47, and 8 more places -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 167 BPM
HOLY WARS... THE PUNISHMENT DUE · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 33 more.

LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 167 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 21 sections: 180 keep time, 39 are fills, 9 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 189-217.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART AA
PART AA
PART AJ
OUTRO
14 groovesDAJOAAA+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Wars... The Punishment Due?

167 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 Holy Wars... The Punishment Due hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 6:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Holy Wars... The Punishment Due?

15 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 15, 16, 17 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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