Leader Of The Rats · Arch Enemy

151 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:10 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
151
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 33-39, and 9 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
LEADER OF THE RATS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 51, 52, 60 and 16 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 76-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 81-82 · LANDS ON BAR 83 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 18 sections: 65 keep time, 22 are fills, 43 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-47.

CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART U
PART W
PART K
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAKWDI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Leader Of The Rats?

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 Leader Of The Rats hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 10 sittings, about 30 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 Leader Of The Rats?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 32, 51, 52, 60 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Arch Enemy drum parts

EVERY ARCH ENEMY CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →