Mercy · Bad Omens

209 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 74-76, 78-80 and 82-84, and 8 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
MERCY · BAR 74
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 41, 45, 49 and 24 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

209 bars across 25 sections: 122 keep time, 30 are fills, 12 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-153.

PART G
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
19 groovesUGPADC+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mercy?

170 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 Mercy hard to play on drums?

61 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Mercy?

15 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 41, 45, 49 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED
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