Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell · HIM

150 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-19, 21-23 and 44, and 6 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
METALCORE RIFFS IN A NUTSHELL · BAR 116
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 17 and 28 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 36 are fills and 32 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-32.

PART E
PART H
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJVAVANL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell?

200 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 Riffs in a Nutshell hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 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 Metalcore Riffs in a Nutshell?

23 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 8, 9, 17 and 28 more.

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