Sweating Bullets (original) · Megadeth

204 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 34-40, 42-46 and 68-74, and 4 more places -- 21.2% 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 (ORIGINAL) · BARS 34-35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 49, 51 and 14 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 12 sections: 109 keep time, 20 are fills, 62 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-117.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
PART V
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHFQVAA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sweating Bullets (original)?

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 (original) hard to play on drums?

60 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 (original)?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 9, 17, 33, 49, 51 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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