A Solitary Reign · Amenra

345 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 8:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
345
LENGTH
8:54
DIFFICULTY
28/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 103% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-179, 181-215 and 217-343, and 1 more place -- 102.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 155 BPM
A SOLITARY REIGN · BAR 73
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 344.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 344 · LANDS ON BAR 345
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

345 bars across 6 sections: 307 keep time, 1 is a fill, 25 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 185-343.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
4 groovesAS1S3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Solitary Reign?

155 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 Solitary Reign hard to play on drums?

28 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

345 bars, about 8:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 18 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Solitary Reign?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 344.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 345 BARS ANALYSED
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