Mission To Mars · Megadeth

176 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 5:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
176
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-56, 66-72 and 74-88, and 2 more places -- 32.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
MISSION TO MARS · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 65, 73, 89, 97, 105 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

176 bars across 14 sections: 111 keep time, 15 are fills, 19 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-32.

COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART N
PART R
OUTRO 2
11 groovesEWGCN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mission To Mars?

140 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 Mission To Mars hard to play on drums?

64 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

176 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Mission To Mars?

13 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 57, 65, 73, 89, 97, 105 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 176 BARS ANALYSED
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