Thrash Metal Song · Andrej Sitkarev

178 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-28 and 30-32, and 7 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THRASH METAL SONG · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 34 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

178 bars across 15 sections: 80 keep time, 40 are fills, 16 are stops and 30 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-24.

PART B
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKHS12BW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thrash Metal Song?

190 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 Song hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Song?

13 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED
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