Battle Scene II · The Black Mages

135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 3:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Progressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 15 more places -- 30.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BATTLE SCENE II · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 44, 47, 58 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 11 sections: 63 keep time, 24 are fills, 32 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 104-109.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDTIS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battle Scene II?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Battle Scene II hard to play on drums?

57 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 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 Scene II?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 12, 32, 40, 44, 47, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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