Metalism · Apace

123 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 28-34, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
METALISM · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 106, 107, 108 and 109.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 106-109 · LANDS ON BAR 110 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 16 sections: 103 keep time, 5 are fills and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 56-89.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
CHORUS 3
12 groovesAGDFE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metalism?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Metalism hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Metalism?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 43, 106, 107, 108 and 109.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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