Second Son Of R. · Oathbreaker

261 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 4:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
261
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 18-28 and 84-94, and 1 more place -- 34.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 185 BPM
SECOND SON OF R. · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 13-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 29-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

261 bars across 7 sections: 81 keep time, 31 are fills, 2 are stops and 144 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 237-261.

CHORUS
PART S3
PART P
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
5 groovesS6BKPS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Second Son Of R.?

185 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 Second Son Of R. hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

261 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 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 Second Son Of R.?

9 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 261 BARS ANALYSED
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