1914 (siege of przemysl) · 1914

272 bars at 230 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
230 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
272
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13-23 and 27, and 6 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 230 BPM
1914 (SIEGE OF PRZEMYSL) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 24, 38, 42, 54, 58 and 34 more.

LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 230 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

272 bars across 21 sections: 157 keep time, 40 are fills, 32 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 144-157.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART U
CHORUS 3
9 groovesAUGOS10+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 1914 (siege of przemysl)?

230 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 1914 (siege of przemysl) hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

272 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 1914 (siege of przemysl)?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 12, 24, 38, 42, 54, 58 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 272 BARS ANALYSED
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