Blaze Heart · SWORD OF JUSTICE

226 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 5:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
5:34
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 66, and 20 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BLAZE HEART · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 57, 61, 85, 105, 109, 113 and 14 more.

LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 85 · LANDS ON BAR 86 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 162 BPM
BAR 105 · LANDS ON BAR 106

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

226 bars across 16 sections: 174 keep time, 20 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 86-104.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART AF
PART AB
CHORUS 4
12 groovesHABKAFB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Blaze Heart?

162 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 Blaze Heart hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 5:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 18 sittings, about 27 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 Blaze Heart?

11 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 57, 61, 85, 105, 109, 113 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED
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