Refuse To Be Denied · Anthrax

105 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 44% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 8-9, 11-12 and 14-15, and 20 more places -- 44.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
REFUSE TO BE DENIED · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 24, 46, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 72-77 · LANDS ON BAR 78 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 92-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 12 are fills, 23 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-23.

CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCGS1S10S2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Refuse To Be Denied?

140 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 Refuse To Be Denied hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Refuse To Be Denied?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 6, 24, 46, 72, 73, 74 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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