Prepare For Attack · Havok

170 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 46-47 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
PREPARE FOR ATTACK · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 32, 33, 41 and 36 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 32-33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 41-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 21 sections: 102 keep time, 42 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-113.

PART I
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
11 groovesNTAAIW+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prepare For Attack?

175 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 Prepare For Attack hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 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 Prepare For Attack?

9 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 16, 17, 25, 32, 33, 41 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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