Ordered To Thrash · Violator

149 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19 and 21, and 10 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
ORDERED TO THRASH · BAR 40
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 17 sections: 85 keep time, 25 are fills, 24 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-115.

CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART O
PART V
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIULO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ordered To Thrash?

225 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 Ordered To Thrash 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 21 sittings, about 23 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 Ordered To Thrash?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 6, 10, 18, 22, 26, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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