Melodic Metalcore · Xcuse the Blood

213 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 4:26 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 26 and 34, and 19 more places -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 192 BPM
MELODIC METALCORE · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 17, 23, 31, 65, 73 and 11 more.

LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 192 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 22 sections: 134 keep time, 17 are fills, 31 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 163-177.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AD
14 groovesGXUADC+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Melodic Metalcore?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Melodic Metalcore hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Melodic Metalcore?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 17, 23, 31, 65, 73 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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