Sixpounder · Children Of Bodom

127 bars of 4/4 at 153 BPM, about 3:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
153 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-27, 36-42 and 64-65, and 4 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 153 BPM
SIXPOUNDER · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 47, 66 and 12 more.

LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 153 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 153 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 15 sections: 72 keep time, 18 are fills and 17 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 68-75.

PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIBDKC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sixpounder?

153 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 Sixpounder hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 14 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 Sixpounder?

11 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 47, 66 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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