Be My Druidess · Type O Negative

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-34 and 48-54 -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BE MY DRUIDESS · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 47, 55, 75 and 5 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 55 · LANDS ON BAR 56 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

122 bars across 8 sections: 72 keep time, 11 are fills, 17 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-34.

PART D
CHORUS
PART S4
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesILGDR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Be My Druidess?

90 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 Be My Druidess hard to play on drums?

53 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Be My Druidess?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 7, 19, 35, 47, 55, 75 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED
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