Megalo Strike Back · Toby Fox

93 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-33, 58-65 and 90-93 -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
MEGALO STRIKE BACK · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-16.

PART B
BREAK
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
9 groovesCIEBS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Megalo Strike Back?

144 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 Megalo Strike Back hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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