Sinner · Judas Priest

305 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 6:42 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
305
LENGTH
6:42
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8-10, and 36 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SINNER · BAR 4
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 44, 45, 46, 70, 74 and 75 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 44-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75

26 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

305 bars across 17 sections: 191 keep time, 81 are fills, 14 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 3-42.

CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART BD
PART BV
CHORUS 4
PART CI
13 groovesCBDJCIBV+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sinner?

180 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 Sinner hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

305 bars, about 6:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 31 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sinner?

30 fills to learn, played 81 times: bars 2, 44, 45, 46, 70, 74 and 75 more.

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