Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark) · Immortal

157 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
82/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 6-7 and 9, and 8 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BLASHYRKH (MIGHTY RAVENDARK) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 35, 48, 55 and 16 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 14 sections: 76 keep time, 22 are fills, 5 are stops and 42 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART M
PART S11
8 groovesAS11IKM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark) hard to play on drums?

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Blashyrkh (Mighty Ravendark)?

12 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 8, 16, 32, 35, 48, 55 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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