Black Sees of Vengeance · Nile

197 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 3:21 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
197
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-19, 21-23 and 33-40, and 11 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BLACK SEES OF VENGEANCE · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 20, 31, 32 and 36 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

197 bars across 19 sections: 131 keep time, 42 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 161-190.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
11 groovesGAOBIAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Sees of Vengeance?

240 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 Sees of Vengeance hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

197 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 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 Black Sees of Vengeance?

11 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 20, 31, 32 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 197 BARS ANALYSED
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