Born In A Mourning Hall · Blind Guardian

239 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 5:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-29 and 37, and 21 more places -- 36% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BORN IN A MOURNING HALL · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 30, 31, 32 and 19 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

239 bars across 19 sections: 157 keep time, 25 are fills and 35 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-29.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART O
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
7 groovesEOAUI+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Born In A Mourning Hall?

184 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 Born In A Mourning Hall hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 16 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 Born In A Mourning Hall?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 30, 31, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED
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