Tales from the Hard Side · Biohazard

221 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38, 40 and 42, and 31 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 185 BPM
TALES FROM THE HARD SIDE · BAR 44
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BARS 11-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 18 sections: 113 keep time, 38 are fills, 35 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-30.

PART H
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S12
PART AT
CHORUS 3
PART AA
OUTRO
12 groovesYAAATALH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tales from the Hard Side?

185 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 Tales from the Hard Side hard to play on drums?

52 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 17 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 Tales from the Hard Side?

15 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 32 more.

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