Whose Fist Is This Anyway? · Prong

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-39 and 41-47, and 11 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 140 BPM
WHOSE FIST IS THIS ANYWAY? · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 60, 68 and 9 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 3 sections: 138 keep time, 15 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 105-123.

VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesCNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Whose Fist Is This Anyway??

140 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 Whose Fist Is This Anyway? hard to play on drums?

62 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Whose Fist Is This Anyway??

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 60, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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