Thunder And Lightning · Accept

148 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 56% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 40 more places -- 56.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 29, 38, 46 and 10 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 21-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 4 sections: 126 keep time, 16 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 125-146.

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

Questions

What BPM is Thunder And Lightning?

155 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 Thunder And Lightning hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Thunder And Lightning?

13 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 16, 21, 22, 29, 38, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 148 BARS ANALYSED
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