Ashen Skies · Azshara

170 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 42-44, and 13 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 155 BPM
ASHEN SKIES · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 45, 53, 67 and 13 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 16 sections: 73 keep time, 19 are fills, 43 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-19.

PART D
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART O
PART O
PART Q
PART S13
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
12 groovesGDEOK+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashen Skies?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Ashen Skies hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Ashen Skies?

15 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 8, 28, 32, 45, 53, 67 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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