As The Vultures Circle · Slaughter To Prevail

146 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 31-33 and 35-36, and 5 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
AS THE VULTURES CIRCLE · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 21 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 17 sections: 82 keep time, 28 are fills, 13 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-120.

PART I
PART W
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART BB
CHORUS 4
PART CF
OUTRO
12 groovesQIBBVCF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is As The Vultures Circle?

140 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 As The Vultures Circle hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in As The Vultures Circle?

20 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 13 and 21 more.

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