Thundersteel · Riot

144 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 152 BPM
THUNDERSTEEL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 79, 87, 91, 92 and 10 more.

LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 79 · LANDS ON BAR 80
LOOP · 152 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 152 BPM
BARS 91-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 16 sections: 99 keep time, 16 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-68.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART M
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART C
9 groovesECMSI+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Thundersteel?

152 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Thundersteel hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 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 Thundersteel?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 28, 44, 79, 87, 91, 92 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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