Let There Be Shred · Megadeth

152 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 3:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
3:49
DIFFICULTY
83/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 20-26 and 28-33, and 13 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 158 BPM
LET THERE BE SHRED · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 34, 39, 47, 51, 55 and 27 more.

LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 158 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 15 sections: 101 keep time, 36 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-33.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART AB
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
7 groovesCEABQB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Let There Be Shred?

158 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Let There Be Shred hard to play on drums?

83 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 3:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 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 Let There Be Shred?

20 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 19, 34, 39, 47, 51, 55 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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