Metal Gear Rising - Red Sun · Jamie Christopherson

79 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-19, 47 and 55 -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 148 BPM
METAL GEAR RISING - RED SUN · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 27, 30, 31, 33, 35 and 12 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 30-31 · LANDS ON BAR 32 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 7 sections: 49 keep time, 18 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 4-19.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDPMAR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metal Gear Rising - Red Sun?

148 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Metal Gear Rising - Red Sun hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Metal Gear Rising - Red Sun?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 3, 27, 30, 31, 33, 35 and 12 more.

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