Battle Theme · The Black Mages

100 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13, and 10 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BATTLE THEME · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 34, 36, 37 and 20 more.

LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 122 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 122 BPM
BARS 36-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 11 sections: 41 keep time, 26 are fills, 20 are stops and 3 are silent.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCJXRH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Battle Theme?

122 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 Battle Theme hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Theme?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 12, 14, 22, 34, 36, 37 and 20 more.

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