Thundersteel v2 · Riot

143 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:41 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 29-32 and 45-52, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
THUNDERSTEEL V2 · BARS 9-10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 43, 76, 77, 78, 82 and 8 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 76-78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 82 · LANDS ON BAR 83
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 94 · LANDS ON BAR 95

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 18 sections: 96 keep time, 14 are fills, 10 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

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

Questions

What BPM is Thundersteel v2?

155 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 Thundersteel v2 hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 v2?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 27, 43, 76, 77, 78, 82 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED
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