Armata Strigoi · Powerwolf

140 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-32 and 34-40, and 5 more places -- 40.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 132 BPM
ARMATA STRIGOI · BAR 19
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 49, 64, 72 and 6 more.

LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 132 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

140 bars across 10 sections: 96 keep time, 12 are fills, 23 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-122.

PART S2
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCGKS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Armata Strigoi?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Armata Strigoi hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Armata Strigoi?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 25, 33, 41, 49, 64, 72 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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