Rū Ana Te Whenua · Alien Weaponry

212 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 7% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-57 -- 7.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
RŪ ANA TE WHENUA · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 75, 89, 90, 94, 97 and 17 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 89-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 18 sections: 115 keep time, 23 are fills, 54 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-15.

PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART S
PART Q
PART S
PART AL
PART BA
OUTRO
16 groovesKS18SQBA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rū Ana Te Whenua?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Rū Ana Te Whenua hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 19 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 Rū Ana Te Whenua?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 42, 75, 89, 90, 94, 97 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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