Metastatic · Antimortal

129 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-31, 33 and 35, and 6 more places -- 10.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
METASTATIC · BAR 29
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 9, 20, 38, 50, 54 and 2 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

137 bars across 14 sections: 94 keep time, 8 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 62-73.

PART A
PART G
PART L
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AL
PART AP
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 2
12 groovesPGAPYAS+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Metastatic?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Metastatic hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Metastatic?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 9, 20, 38, 50, 54 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
MORE BY THIS BAND

Other Antimortal drum parts

EVERY ANTIMORTAL CHART →
AT THIS LEVEL

Play something else today

EVERY SONG A-Z →