Volt Thrower · Conan

97 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 22 more places -- 42.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
VOLT THROWER · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 28 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 5 sections: 46 keep time, 34 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-87.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesALRNFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Volt Thrower?

130 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 Volt Thrower hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Volt Thrower?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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