Repentless · Slayer

171 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 210 BPM
REPENTLESS · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 28 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

171 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-105.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART I
PART G
7 groovesCIGAS12+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Repentless?

210 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 Repentless hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Repentless?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED
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