Thresher · Hellions

93 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Rock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 23, and 8 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THRESHER · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 14, 21, 22, 24, 26 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

93 bars across 9 sections: 58 keep time, 23 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-86.

CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCQLGU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thresher?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Thresher hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Thresher?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 14, 21, 22, 24, 26 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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