The Absolute Terrorist · Antipig

186 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34, 36-39 and 41-42, and 8 more places -- 22.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
THE ABSOLUTE TERRORIST · BAR 34
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 3, 17, 21, 26, 27 and 28 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 2-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

186 bars across 15 sections: 117 keep time, 34 are fills, 1 is a stop and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-180.

PART D
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART AR
OUTRO
12 groovesMDZARS9+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Absolute Terrorist?

160 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 The Absolute Terrorist hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 The Absolute Terrorist?

8 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 2, 3, 17, 21, 26, 27 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED
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