Pure Hate · Merciless

126 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 59% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-55, 59 and 61, and 6 more places -- 58.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 148 BPM
PURE HATE · BAR 31
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 6 more.

LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 148 BPM
BARS 24-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 148 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 6 sections: 103 keep time, 12 are fills and 4 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 30-55.

PART A
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesJADFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pure Hate?

148 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 Pure Hate hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Pure Hate?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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