Resistance · Morgoth

255 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 4:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
255
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 13 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 225 BPM
RESISTANCE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 79, 82, 83, 86, 87, 96 and 27 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 82-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 86-87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 100 · LANDS ON BAR 101 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

255 bars across 24 sections: 187 keep time, 33 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-29.

PART D
PART D
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART C
PART C
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
14 groovesHDCIAD+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Resistance?

225 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 Resistance hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

255 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Resistance?

10 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 79, 82, 83, 86, 87, 96 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 255 BARS ANALYSED
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