Black Pentagram · Unlucky Morpheus

214 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 4:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
214
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 47-53 and 55-60, and 5 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BLACK PENTAGRAM · BAR 12
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 61, 62, 102, 118, 119, 125 and 21 more.

LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 61-62 · LANDS ON BAR 63 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 118-119 · LANDS ON BAR 120 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 186 BPM
BARS 125-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

214 bars across 19 sections: 153 keep time, 27 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 24-39.

PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesEKMBGBL+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Pentagram?

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

Is Black Pentagram hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

214 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 24 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 Pentagram?

7 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 61, 62, 102, 118, 119, 125 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 214 BARS ANALYSED
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