Song 4 · Diseased Ways

125 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 2:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
2:27
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-40, 45-52 and 105-108 -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
SONG 4 · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 20 sections: 83 keep time, 5 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-64.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART R
BREAK 4
16 groovesIFS20RH+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Song 4?

240 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second 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?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 2:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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.

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