The Guillotine · Escape The Fate

218 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 45-46, and 10 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
THE GUILLOTINE · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 41, 89, 128, 143 and 162.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 143 · LANDS ON BAR 144

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 18 sections: 81 keep time, 6 are fills, 97 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 59-65.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART R
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCJRBG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Guillotine?

200 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 Guillotine hard to play on drums?

64 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 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 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 Guillotine?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 6, 41, 89, 128, 143 and 162.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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