Take Your Guard Down · Hallowed Be Thy Name

197 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-17, and 7 more places -- 52.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 210 BPM
TAKE YOUR GUARD DOWN · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 64 and 18 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 64-65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 13 sections: 147 keep time, 24 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-132.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDCKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Take Your Guard Down?

210 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 Take Your Guard Down hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Take Your Guard Down?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 9, 25, 33, 41, 64 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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