Metal Mistress · Bdee

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
39/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-22, 28-35 and 45-56 -- 36.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
METAL MISTRESS · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 77, 78 and 79.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 77-79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

81 bars across 8 sections: 51 keep time, 4 are fills, 16 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-55.

PART A
PART S3
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKJIA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metal Mistress?

120 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 Mistress hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how many notes a second it asks for the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Metal Mistress?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 26, 77, 78 and 79.

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