Altar Of Sacrifice · Slayer

130 bars at 225 BPM -- fast, and 2:43 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
225 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:43
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-10, 20-33 and 43, and 12 more places -- 37.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 225 BPM
ALTAR OF SACRIFICE · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 19, 34 and 19 more.

LOOP · 225 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 225 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 10 sections: 80 keep time, 25 are fills, 1 is a stop and 15 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-33.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S
PART AA
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCSES10AA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Altar Of Sacrifice?

225 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 Altar Of Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Altar Of Sacrifice?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 11, 19, 34 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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