Stab Me In The Back · X Japan

189 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65, 69 and 87, and 19 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
STAB ME IN THE BACK · BAR 103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 38 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

189 bars across 18 sections: 119 keep time, 44 are fills, 7 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 100-111.

PART D
PART J
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
8 groovesSDOJE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stab Me In The Back?

200 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 Stab Me In The Back hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 15 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 Stab Me In The Back?

17 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 7, 8, 14, 15, 16, 24 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED
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