New Thrash Song · Sam McNeill

425 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 8:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
425
LENGTH
8:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-48, 65-80 and 193-216, and 4 more places -- 27.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 195 BPM
NEW THRASH SONG · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 192, 221, 225 and 229.

LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 192 · LANDS ON BAR 193
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 221 · LANDS ON BAR 222
LOOP · 195 BPM
BAR 225 · LANDS ON BAR 226
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

425 bars across 29 sections: 289 keep time, 6 are fills, 21 are stops and 90 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-48.

CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Q
BREAK
PART S21
18 groovesFMLQS15+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is New Thrash Song?

195 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 New Thrash Song hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

425 bars, about 8:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 New Thrash Song?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 16, 192, 221, 225 and 229.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 425 BARS ANALYSED
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