Slaves To Metal · Accept

156 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 92-133 -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
SLAVES TO METAL · BAR 93
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 15 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 9 sections: 121 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 93-133.

PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNUDIS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Slaves To Metal?

138 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 Slaves To Metal hard to play on drums?

45 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Slaves To Metal?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 23, 38, 42, 46, 50, 54 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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