Tipping Point · Megadeth

193 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 4:34 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 upAdvanced
TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 45-46, and 8 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 169 BPM
TIPPING POINT · BAR 35
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 49 more.

LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 169 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

193 bars across 17 sections: 87 keep time, 55 are fills, 18 are stops and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 165-187.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AL
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJAQFALT+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tipping Point?

169 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 Tipping Point hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 18 sittings, about 28 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 Tipping Point?

23 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 17, 18, 34, 42, 43, 44 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED
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