Stains Of Time · Metal Gear Rising

102 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-41 and 86-92 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
STAINS OF TIME · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 19 and 19 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

102 bars across 12 sections: 57 keep time, 25 are fills and 5 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 79-84.

PART E
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLQTJE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Stains Of Time?

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 Stains Of Time hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Stains Of Time?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 19 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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