Song 4 · Babymetal

173 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:51 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalPop150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
173
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 41-47, and 6 more places -- 19.2% 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
SONG 4 · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22 and 39 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

173 bars across 16 sections: 91 keep time, 46 are fills, 18 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-15.

CHORUS
PART N
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 4
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesFNITW+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 4?

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 Song 4 hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

173 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Song 4?

11 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 16, 20, 22 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 173 BARS ANALYSED
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