Metalingus · Alter Bridge

118 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 27-28, 31-32 and 53-54, and 7 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
METALINGUS · BARS 27-28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 21, 26, 30 and 25 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

118 bars across 11 sections: 72 keep time, 31 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 40-47.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAAEFYD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metalingus?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Metalingus hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Metalingus?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 21, 26, 30 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED
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