Astaroth · Mägo de Oz

206 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 5:58 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalCountry / Folk120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
5:58
DIFFICULTY
42/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-19 and 21-24, and 18 more places -- 43.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 138 BPM
ASTAROTH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 27, 29 and 19 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

206 bars across 11 sections: 49 keep time, 25 are fills, 105 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 113-126.

PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART S4
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
8 groovesHEPWA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Astaroth?

138 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 Astaroth hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 5:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Astaroth?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 25, 27, 29 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED
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