I Am The Law · Anthrax

247 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 6:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-53, 63-77 and 100-114, and 2 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
I AM THE LAW · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 7, 20, 21, 78, 79 and 43 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 78-80 · LANDS ON BAR 81 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 27 sections: 147 keep time, 49 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-37.

PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AE
PART AE
CHORUS 4
18 groovesNAEUJR+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am The Law?

152 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 I Am The Law hard to play on drums?

64 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 sittings, about 27 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 I Am The Law?

18 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 5, 7, 20, 21, 78, 79 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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