Arising Thunder · Angra

203 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 4:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
4:39
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-11, 76-91 and 153-160, and 1 more place -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 175 BPM
ARISING THUNDER · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 12, 20, 25, 30, 34 and 26 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

203 bars across 21 sections: 141 keep time, 32 are fills, 11 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-91.

PART H
PART L
PART L
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesFLHOX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arising Thunder?

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 Arising Thunder hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 4:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Arising Thunder?

12 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 5, 12, 20, 25, 30, 34 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED
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