Tired And Red · Sodom

254 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 6:09 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
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-22, 24-25 and 28-29, and 17 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
TIRED AND RED · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 17 sections: 172 keep time, 32 are fills, 9 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 172-189.

PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART S7
PART Y
PART Y
CHORUS 4
PART M
CHORUS 5
10 groovesGMYS7A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tired And Red?

165 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 Tired And Red hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Tired And Red?

16 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 18, 19, 23 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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