Metal Dashain Dhun · Binam

87 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 1:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
1:29
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-28 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 235 BPM
METAL DASHAIN DHUN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 53, 62 and 74.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 7 sections: 50 keep time, 6 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-28.

PART D
PART G
PART I
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesQDGIL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metal Dashain Dhun?

235 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 Dashain Dhun hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 1:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Metal Dashain Dhun?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 15, 16, 29, 53, 62 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED
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