Rust In Peace... Polaris · Megadeth

214 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 5:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 9 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 157 BPM
RUST IN PEACE... POLARIS · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 12 more.

LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 157 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 20 sections: 161 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 166-201.

PART J
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AA
11 groovesNAAJRL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rust In Peace... Polaris?

157 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 Rust In Peace... Polaris hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 sittings, about 25 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 Rust In Peace... Polaris?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 9, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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