Thrashaholic · Gama Bomb

105 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:13 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
2:13
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 12 and 15-21, and 7 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 190 BPM
THRASHAHOLIC · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 7 sections: 86 keep time, 7 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-29.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCLAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thrashaholic?

190 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 Thrashaholic hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 2:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thrashaholic?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 9, 10, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED
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