The Gears · Dethklok

202 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 4:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 42-56 and 82-88, and 9 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 194 BPM
THE GEARS · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 more.

LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82
LOOP · 194 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 12 sections: 171 keep time, 16 are fills, 1 is a stop and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Gears?

194 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 Gears hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Gears?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 17, 57, 81, 89, 97, 105 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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