Slaved Chains · Dystopia

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPunk120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23-28, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
SLAVED CHAINS · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 30, 32, 54, 60, 61 and 10 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 15 sections: 42 keep time, 16 are fills, 33 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 36-45.

PART D
PART G
PART M
PART G
PART R
PART S10
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesZGDMR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaved Chains?

125 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 Slaved Chains hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Slaved Chains?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 30, 32, 54, 60, 61 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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