Thrash Metal Cassette · Dinosaur Pile-Up

151 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndiePunk150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-40, 42 and 44, and 23 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
THRASH METAL CASSETTE · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 22, 30, 57, 65, 66 and 10 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 65-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

151 bars across 11 sections: 117 keep time, 16 are fills, 3 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-122.

PART C
PART G
PART C
CHORUS
PART E
PART C
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesLCUEG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thrash Metal Cassette?

170 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 Thrash Metal Cassette hard to play on drums?

60 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Thrash Metal Cassette?

8 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 22, 30, 57, 65, 66 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED
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