Minor Threat · Minor Threat

61 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 1:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upIntermediate
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17 and 19, and 3 more places -- 45.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 169 BPM
MINOR THREAT · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 18, 20, 33 and 4 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

61 bars across 8 sections: 42 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-15.

CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHS1S2S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Minor Threat?

169 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 Minor Threat hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Minor Threat?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 18, 20, 33 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED
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