Ten Thousand Fists · Disturbed

91 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-31, 33-35 and 49-51, and 3 more places -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 107 BPM
TEN THOUSAND FISTS · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 32 and 13 more.

LOOP · 107 BPM
BARS 9-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 107 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

91 bars across 11 sections: 60 keep time, 19 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLGAEW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ten Thousand Fists?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Ten Thousand Fists hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 Ten Thousand Fists?

9 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 20, 32 and 13 more.

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