I Am The State · Havok

220 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 4:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
220
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 17 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 215 BPM
I AM THE STATE · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 43, 44, 52 and 30 more.

LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BARS 43-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 215 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

220 bars across 17 sections: 162 keep time, 38 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 175-189.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART V
PART AA
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGAAJNR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am The State?

215 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 I Am The State hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

220 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 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 I Am The State?

11 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 24, 32, 36, 43, 44, 52 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 220 BARS ANALYSED
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