Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes · Demoncy

166 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-20, 57-60 and 72, and 6 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BLACK VENGEANCE OF THE ANCIENT HORDES · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 27 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 16 sections: 107 keep time, 36 are fills, 5 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-86.

PART C
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDCFJR+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Black Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes?

180 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 Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Vengeance of the Ancient Hordes?

18 fills to learn, played 33 times: bars 22, 26, 32, 34, 36, 38 and 27 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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