metal bass · Me

83 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 1:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
1:54
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58, 60 and 62, and 2 more places -- 34.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 174 BPM
METAL BASS · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 46.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

83 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 6 are fills, 2 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-83.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART I
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesRHIBN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is metal bass?

174 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 metal bass hard to play on drums?

41 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 1:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 metal bass?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 36, 40, 42, 44 and 46.

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