8th Commandment · Sonata Arctica

155 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 82% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 19-73 and 75-106, and 5 more places -- 81.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 175 BPM
8TH COMMANDMENT · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 74, 123 and 3 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 6 sections: 129 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 19-73.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesELS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is 8th Commandment?

175 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 8th Commandment hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 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 8th Commandment?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 8, 17, 18, 74, 123 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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