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Metal Thrashing Mad · Anthrax

EXERCISE 10 OF 31
Fill at bar 41 (a small one)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEHALOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Metal Thrashing Mad on drums

129 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-7, toms through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-57, snare through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-73, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-29, 31 and 33-40, and 9 more places -- 61.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Metal Thrashing Mad -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 41, 56, 65, 112, 120 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 54-77 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 78-93 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Metal Thrashing Mad?

190 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 hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:43 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, high tom, 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?

4 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 41, 56, 65, 112, 120 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED