Birth Of Venus Illegitima · Therion

134 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-21, 47-48 and 67-79, and 2 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BIRTH OF VENUS ILLEGITIMA · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 58, 65 and 8 more.

LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39
LOOP · 104 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 16 sections: 99 keep time, 14 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-37.

PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesECAHS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Birth Of Venus Illegitima?

104 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 Birth Of Venus Illegitima hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 6 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 Birth Of Venus Illegitima?

10 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 22, 38, 46, 58, 65 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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