Reckoning Day · Megadeth

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:32
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15 and 105-136 -- 34.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
RECKONING DAY · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 9 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 9 sections: 111 keep time and 15 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-136.

CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART J
PART C
PART G
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAGCPJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reckoning Day?

120 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 Reckoning Day hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 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 Reckoning Day?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 44, 52 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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