Radical Cut · Arcturus

244 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
244
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-18, 20-24 and 26, and 9 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
RADICAL CUT · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 21 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

244 bars across 18 sections: 167 keep time, 27 are fills, 35 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 107-128.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART Q
CHORUS 4
PART J
PART V
PART AA
11 groovesBJAAQV+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radical Cut?

200 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 Radical Cut hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

244 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 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 Radical Cut?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 19, 25, 27, 29, 33 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 244 BARS ANALYSED
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