Beyond The Realms Of Death · Judas Priest

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetalUnder 90 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 10 more places -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BEYOND THE REALMS OF DEATH · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 more.

LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 86 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

20 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 15 sections: 84 keep time, 40 are fills, 4 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART I
PART Z
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDIZANS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Beyond The Realms Of Death?

86 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 Beyond The Realms Of Death hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 14 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 Beyond The Realms Of Death?

24 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 4, 23, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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