Point · Slayer

208 bars at 198 BPM -- fast, and 4:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
198 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
208
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-57, 67-73 and 83-89, and 4 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 198 BPM
POINT · BAR 51
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 198 BPM
BARS 24-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 10 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 17 sections: 132 keep time, 45 are fills, 15 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-168.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AC
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO
11 groovesHACTCV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Point?

198 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 Point hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

208 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Point?

17 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 22, 24, 25 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 208 BARS ANALYSED
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