M16 · Sodom

170 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33 and 35-37, and 6 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 130 BPM
M16 · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18 and 44 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 17 sections: 86 keep time, 50 are fills, 11 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-109.

PART M
PART R
PART M
PART R
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART AF
PART R
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFMJRAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is M16?

130 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 M16 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 M16?

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 15, 16, 18 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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