Machine of Wrath · Unnamed artist

130 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-54 -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MACHINE OF WRATH · BARS 39-40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 38, 55, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 55-56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

132 bars across 16 sections: 81 keep time, 9 are fills, 15 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-54.

CHORUS
PART R
PART Z
PART AC
PART AG
PART AM
PART AQ
OUTRO
BREAK 3
15 groovesARZAMS16+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Machine of Wrath?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Machine of Wrath hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Machine of Wrath?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 20, 38, 55, 56, 60, 64 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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