Sixpounder V2 · Children Of Bodom

127 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 20-26, 36-42 and 66-67, and 3 more places -- 26.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
SIXPOUNDER V2 · BARS 20-21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 27, 45 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 14 sections: 72 keep time, 17 are fills and 23 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-77.

CHORUS
PART D
PART I
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIDLTFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sixpounder V2?

150 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 V2 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 V2?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 11, 18, 19, 27, 45 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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