Medusa · Anthrax

179 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 6 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 150 BPM
MEDUSA · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 6-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

179 bars across 15 sections: 122 keep time, 17 are fills and 26 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 169-179.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART J
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFJONBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Medusa?

150 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 Medusa hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Medusa?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 25 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED
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