The Fight Song · Marilyn Manson

95 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 23-29 and 39-42, and 2 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
THE FIGHT SONG · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 38, 58 and 74.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 11 sections: 78 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-90.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fight Song?

130 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 The Fight Song hard to play on drums?

53 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?

95 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Fight Song?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 30, 38, 58 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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