Ride The Lightning (Bonus Track) · Megadeth

240 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 22-24 and 26-28, and 20 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
RIDE THE LIGHTNING (BONUS TRACK) · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

32 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 12, 16, 25, 29, 33, 35 and 55 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

28 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 15 sections: 121 keep time, 61 are fills and 42 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 148-161.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
PART AO
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDYAOFA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride The Lightning (Bonus Track)?

155 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 Ride The Lightning (Bonus Track) hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 75 exercises over 21 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 Ride The Lightning (Bonus Track)?

32 fills to learn, played 61 times: bars 12, 16, 25, 29, 33, 35 and 55 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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