Industrial Metal Challenge Song · Carter Merrill

69 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 5 more places -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 125 BPM
INDUSTRIAL METAL CHALLENGE SONG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 7 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

69 bars across 9 sections: 41 keep time, 13 are fills, 6 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAMSS7F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Industrial Metal Challenge Song?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Industrial Metal Challenge Song hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Industrial Metal Challenge Song?

10 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 32 and 7 more.

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