Thrasher · Evile

161 bars at 207 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
207 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-25, 43-48 and 51-53, and 17 more places -- 50.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 207 BPM
THRASHER · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 29 more.

LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 207 BPM
BARS 39-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BARS 49-50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 207 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 15 sections: 108 keep time, 35 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 133-154.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
8 groovesEFS9CA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thrasher?

207 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 Thrasher hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Thrasher?

15 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 16, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED
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