War Maggot · Broken Hope

14 bars at 270 BPM -- fast, and 0:12 of it without a break -- on ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
270 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
14
LENGTH
0:12
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3 and 8-10 -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 270 BPM
WAR MAGGOT · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 12, 13 and 14.

LOOP · 270 BPM
BARS 11-14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

14 bars: 10 keep time and 4 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is War Maggot?

270 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 War Maggot hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

14 bars, about 0:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in War Maggot?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 12, 13 and 14.

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