Orion · Metallica

251 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 7:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
7:15
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-31, 33 and 35, and 19 more places -- 23.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 128 BPM
ORION · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 51, 52, 57 and 67 more.

LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 128 BPM
BARS 51-52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 128 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

251 bars across 14 sections: 136 keep time, 73 are fills, 14 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-31.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART AI
PART AG
PART AZ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesBAGBFNAZ+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Orion?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Orion 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 7:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Orion?

26 fills to learn, played 73 times: bars 32, 40, 48, 51, 52, 57 and 67 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED
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