Ratamahatta · Sepultura

120 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMFour drums or fewerBeginner
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 22, and 28 more places -- 29.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 110 BPM
RATAMAHATTA · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 14 sections: 99 keep time and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-112.

CHORUS
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART O
13 groovesIOHMA+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ratamahatta?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Ratamahatta hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

snare, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

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