Sweating Bullets · Megadeth

219 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletIntermediate
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
5:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 49-54, 57-61 and 83-88, and 4 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
SWEATING BULLETS · BARS 49-50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 82, 134, 136 and 11 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 134 · LANDS ON BAR 135 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 15 sections: 138 keep time, 17 are fills, 33 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 116-132.

COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
PART Y
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesIATLAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweating Bullets?

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 Sweating Bullets hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 5:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 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 Sweating Bullets?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 48, 82, 134, 136 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
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