Loyalty · American Head Charge

102 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28 and 46-52 -- 44.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
LOYALTY · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 29.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 9 sections: 51 keep time, 2 are fills and 44 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-28.

PART B
PART D
PART B
BREAK
PART D
PART B
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS9DBS4F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loyalty?

185 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Loyalty hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Loyalty?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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