The Game · Dragonforce

288 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
288
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 67-72, and 13 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 240 BPM
THE GAME · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 54 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 25-26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

288 bars across 20 sections: 196 keep time, 60 are fills, 5 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-64.

PART C
PART Q
PART C
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART C
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesECQLAO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Game?

240 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 The Game hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

288 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 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 Game?

22 fills to learn, played 60 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 25, 26 and 54 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 288 BARS ANALYSED
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