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Metal Thrashing Mad 2004 · Anthrax

EXERCISE 15 OF 40
Fill at bar 33 and 65 (a small one)
102 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEWQAS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal Thrashing Mad 2004 on drums

136 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 2:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-57, toms through bars 58-64, snare through bars 65-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 14 more places -- 52.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Metal Thrashing Mad 2004 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 33, 65, 67, 71 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- E, W -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-67 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-104 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-90 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal Thrashing Mad 2004?

192 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 Thrashing Mad 2004 hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Thrashing Mad 2004?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 9, 33, 65, 67, 71 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED