Practice What You Preach · Testament

231 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
231
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 32-34 and 36-38, and 23 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 13 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 101-102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

231 bars across 17 sections: 151 keep time, 19 are fills, 39 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 29-53.

PART D
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIGDHB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Practice What You Preach?

190 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 Practice What You Preach hard to play on drums?

60 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

231 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Practice What You Preach?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 231 BARS ANALYSED
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