Old · Machine Head

110 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
OLD · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 1-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

110 bars across 14 sections: 65 keep time, 32 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-108.

CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
PART Q
PART V
PART X
PART AL
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLXVALAX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Old?

110 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 Old hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 Old?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED
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