Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal · Spectral Wound

242 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:42 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
242
LENGTH
5:42
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-17, 20-21 and 24, and 6 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
ARISTOCRATIC SUICIDAL BLACK METAL · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 25, 49, 80, 81, 97 and 12 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 80-81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

242 bars across 19 sections: 173 keep time, 18 are fills, 30 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 115-129.

CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART E
PART P
PART E
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBEGPU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal?

170 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 Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal hard to play on drums?

62 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

242 bars, about 5:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Aristocratic Suicidal Black Metal?

14 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 25, 49, 80, 81, 97 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 242 BARS ANALYSED
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