Ashes Of The Dawn · Dragonforce

204 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-38, 57-62 and 65-71, and 8 more places -- 32.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 182 BPM
ASHES OF THE DAWN · BAR 32
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 30, 39, 40 and 25 more.

LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 182 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 182 BPM
BARS 39-40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

204 bars across 19 sections: 143 keep time, 31 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 58-71.

PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesKIENA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ashes Of The Dawn?

182 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 Ashes Of The Dawn hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 17 sittings, about 24 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 Ashes Of The Dawn?

15 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 11, 12, 16, 30, 39, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED
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