Piranha · Exodus

163 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 11 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
PIRANHA · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 20 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

163 bars across 11 sections: 113 keep time, 26 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 97-111.

PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART C
OUTRO
7 groovesLCUJD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Piranha?

190 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 Piranha 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 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 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 Piranha?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 2, 24, 28, 36, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED
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