Battle for faith · Todesurteil

165 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
81/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78-80, 82-84 and 86-88, and 5 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BATTLE FOR FAITH · BAR 78
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 65, 73, 121 and 165.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 53 · LANDS ON BAR 54 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 65 · LANDS ON BAR 66 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 17 sections: 115 keep time, 6 are fills, 10 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 78-104.

PART B
CHORUS
PART K
PART J
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
11 groovesFUKJP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battle for faith?

200 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 Battle for faith hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 18 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 Battle for faith?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 65, 73, 121 and 165.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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