Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III · Atherakia

79 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 39% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-8, 10-12 and 44-46, and 3 more places -- 39.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BURNING DOWN THE OPERA LAMENTO, THE REDEMPTION DENIED - EPISODE III · BARS 6-7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47, 51 and 55.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 51 · LANDS ON BAR 52
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 5 sections: 38 keep time, 6 are fills and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 61-79.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesS3CGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III hard to play on drums?

59 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 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Burning Down The Opera Lamento, The Redemption Denied - Episode III?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 9, 43, 47, 51 and 55.

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