Metal Chorus Idea · Shawn Cochran

16 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 0:19 of it without a break -- on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
16
LENGTH
0:19
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 75% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 1 more place -- 75% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 200 BPM
METAL CHORUS IDEA · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 8, 12 and 16.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

16 bars: 12 keep time and 4 are fills.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metal Chorus Idea?

200 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 Chorus Idea hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

16 bars, about 0:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Metal Chorus Idea?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 4, 8, 12 and 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 16 BARS ANALYSED
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