To The Wall · Sepultura

296 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 5:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
296
LENGTH
5:27
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-34 and 71-73, and 9 more places -- 22.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 220 BPM
TO THE WALL · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 42, 46, 54 and 32 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

296 bars across 26 sections: 199 keep time, 44 are fills, 21 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-164.

PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AI
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART AV
OUTRO
17 groovesICAILAW+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is To The Wall?

220 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 To The Wall hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

296 bars, about 5:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in To The Wall?

27 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 16, 20, 32, 42, 46, 54 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 296 BARS ANALYSED
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