Me 262 · Blue Öyster Cult

579 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 13:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
579
LENGTH
13:49
DIFFICULTY
30/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-41, 54 and 67-72, and 4 more places -- 36.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
ME 262 · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 51, 53, 85, 87, 515 and 1 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

579 bars across 16 sections: 138 keep time, 7 are fills, 6 are stops and 419 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 13-41.

CHORUS
BREAK
8 groovesS8CDIA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Me 262?

165 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Me 262 hard to play on drums?

30 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

579 bars, about 13:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Me 262?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 51, 53, 85, 87, 515 and 1 more.

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