At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 · MÖRKENSTERN

94 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:00
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-13, 31-34 and 45-47, and 4 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
AT THE EDGE OF THE BURNING STEEL VER. 2 · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 22, 35, 36 and 11 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

94 bars across 12 sections: 46 keep time, 17 are fills, 17 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-30.

PART C
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART L
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesETCMI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2 hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 At The Edge of The Burning Steel Ver. 2?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 14, 18, 22, 35, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED
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