Threshold · Slayer

108 bars at 191 BPM -- fast, and 2:28 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
191 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 7 more places -- 22% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 191 BPM
THRESHOLD · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 52, 69 and 6 more.

LOOP · 191 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 191 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

108 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-14.

CHORUS
PART G
PART M
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
BREAK
9 groovesBMGQV+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Threshold?

191 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 Threshold hard to play on drums?

53 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Threshold?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 16, 40, 48, 52, 69 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED
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