Meant to Be · Testament

160 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
38/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-76, 79-80 and 83-84, and 12 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 122 BPM
MEANT TO BE · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 57, 63, 65, 73, 74, 78 and 31 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 73-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 10 sections: 51 keep time, 37 are fills, 13 are stops and 51 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-109.

COUNT-IN
PART S4
PART I
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVS4OS1I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Meant to Be?

122 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 Meant to Be hard to play on drums?

38 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Meant to Be?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 57, 63, 65, 73, 74, 78 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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