M-16 · Sodom

171 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:49 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 52-54, and 9 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 142 BPM
M-16 · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 33 and 36 more.

LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 142 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 18 sections: 90 keep time, 42 are fills, 11 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-92.

PART I
PART L
PART T
PART L
PART T
CHORUS 3
PART AF
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesEITLAF+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is M-16?

142 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 M-16 hard to play on drums?

64 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 17 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 M-16?

21 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 17, 19, 21, 23, 25, 33 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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