Train of Consequences · Megadeth

101 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 14-16, and 7 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 114 BPM
TRAIN OF CONSEQUENCES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 41, 45 and 14 more.

LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 114 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

101 bars across 9 sections: 65 keep time, 20 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-16.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART J
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCJSFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Train of Consequences?

114 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Train of Consequences hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 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 Train of Consequences?

16 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 41, 45 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED
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