Arrival · King Diamond

210 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 8:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
8:59
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 31 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 94 BPM
ARRIVAL · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 94 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

210 bars across 18 sections: 145 keep time, 22 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 23-54.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART AK
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
10 groovesJACOVG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Arrival?

94 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Arrival hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 8:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 20 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 Arrival?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 4, 6, 10, 13, 17, 21 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED
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