Tornado of Souls · Megadeth

258 bars at 196 BPM -- fast, and 5:16 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 upIntermediate
TEMPO
196 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
258
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
60/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-29, 34-35 and 53-65, and 11 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 196 BPM
TORNADO OF SOULS · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 36, 52, 72 and 22 more.

LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 196 BPM
BARS 121-122 · LANDS ON BAR 123 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

258 bars across 26 sections: 191 keep time, 28 are fills, 4 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-32.

PART G
PART K
PART G
PART K
CHORUS
PART Z
PART AD
16 groovesXKGZAD+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Tornado of Souls?

196 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 Tornado of Souls hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

258 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Tornado of Souls?

8 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 14, 15, 16, 36, 52, 72 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 258 BARS ANALYSED
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