Bir · Pentagram (Mezarkabul)

139 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 93% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 8-15 and 17-44, and 7 more places -- 92.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BIR · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 99.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

139 bars: 137 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 8-98.

OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bir?

138 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 Bir hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 4 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Bir?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED
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