Stahl Blitz Kalt · Absurd

145 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8, 17-24 and 41-48, and 4 more places -- 42.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
STAHL BLITZ KALT · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 40, 56 and 128.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 116 keep time, 4 are fills and 11 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 130-142.

INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesADEBHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stahl Blitz Kalt?

155 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 Stahl Blitz Kalt hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stahl Blitz Kalt?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 16, 40, 56 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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