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Show No Mercy · Slayer

EXERCISE 20 OF 23
Chorus 4 into Outro with the record (bars 99-106)
118 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Show No Mercy on drums

130 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:49
DIFFICULTY
97/100

toms through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-118, kick and crashes through bars 119-122, snare through bars 123-127 and kick and crashes through bars 128-130.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-13 and 31-37, and 8 more places -- 36.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
Show No Mercy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 86, 102, 118, 123 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-15 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-58 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-90 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Show No Mercy?

185 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 Show No Mercy hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 87 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Show No Mercy?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 14, 86, 102, 118, 123 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED