Rusty Warhorse · Amaran

125 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-12 and 14-15, and 4 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
RUSTY WARHORSE · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 35, 43 and 9 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 11 sections: 93 keep time, 17 are fills, 2 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-34.

CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBFINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Rusty Warhorse?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Rusty Warhorse hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 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 Rusty Warhorse?

10 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 9, 13, 16, 17, 35, 43 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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