RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA · Slaughter to Prevail

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal90 to 119 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40 and 63-69 -- 12.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 12.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 14 sections: 82 keep time, 3 are fills, 6 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-27.

PART A
PART K
CHORUS
PART Y
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART C
OUTRO 2
12 groovesUCKRY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 RUSSIAN GRIZZLY IN AMERICA?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 4, 8 and 12.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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