A Desert Throne · Septicflesh

154 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 6:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
6:29
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
A DESERT THRONE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 19 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

154 bars across 12 sections: 94 keep time, 25 are fills, 13 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 57-71.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART R
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesERBMA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Desert Throne?

95 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 A Desert Throne hard to play on drums?

52 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 6:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 A Desert Throne?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED
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