metalcore riff continued · TBP

148 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-56, 109-110 and 115, and 4 more places -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
METALCORE RIFF CONTINUED · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 26, 27, 28, 31, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 21 are fills, 7 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-22.

PART A
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
PART S
PART A
PART H
PART W
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesPAHAEW+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is metalcore riff continued?

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 metalcore riff continued hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 metalcore riff continued?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 26, 27, 28, 31, 40 and 14 more.

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