Suicide Nation · At The Gates

155 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 31-38, and 7 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SUICIDE NATION · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 46, 58 and 6 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 13-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 13 sections: 115 keep time, 12 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 95-110.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDHMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Suicide Nation?

165 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 Suicide Nation hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is 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?

155 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 Suicide Nation?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 14, 46, 58 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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