The Hammer · Kublai Khan Tx

136 bars at 163 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
163 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 14 and 18, and 12 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 163 BPM
THE HAMMER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 58, 62, 88, 89 and 120.

LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59
LOOP · 163 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63
LOOP · 163 BPM
BARS 88-89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 14 sections: 61 keep time, 6 are fills, 39 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 46-55.

PART B
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART P
BREAK 3
PART N
PART Y
OUTRO
11 groovesENS8PB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Hammer?

163 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 Hammer hard to play on drums?

56 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Hammer?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 58, 62, 88, 89 and 120.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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