Kick The Chair · Megadeth

126 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 10 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 145 BPM
KICK THE CHAIR · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 12 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 14 sections: 71 keep time, 18 are fills, 9 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 98-105.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART U
PART W
BREAK
9 groovesGAES14Q+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kick The Chair?

145 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 Kick The Chair 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Kick The Chair?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 20, 25, 29, 33, 37, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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