A Prophecy · Asking Alexandria

150 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreElectronic150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
150
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
47/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 56, 58 and 64, and 2 more places -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
A PROPHECY · BARS 134-135
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63 and 11 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

150 bars across 12 sections: 65 keep time, 17 are fills, 27 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-31.

PART C
PART H
PART K
PART M
PART Y
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS8KTRH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Prophecy?

190 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 A Prophecy hard to play on drums?

47 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

150 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Prophecy?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 53, 55, 59, 61, 63 and 11 more.

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