Black Horizons · Dissection

322 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 8:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
322
LENGTH
8:45
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 98-103, 106-110 and 114-119, and 6 more places -- 18.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BLACK HORIZONS · BAR 98
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

27 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 17, 19, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 38 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50

23 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

322 bars across 20 sections: 208 keep time, 44 are fills, 12 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-16.

PART C
PART M
PART Z
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART BE
PART G
BREAK
14 groovesANBEGCZ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Horizons?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Black Horizons hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

322 bars, about 8:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 27 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 Black Horizons?

27 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 17, 19, 41, 49, 65, 73 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 322 BARS ANALYSED
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