Bye Bye Babylon · Cryoshell

145 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMIntermediate
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 43% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14 and 16, and 20 more places -- 42.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BYE BYE BABYLON · BAR 11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 77, 78, 79 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 63 · LANDS ON BAR 64 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 77-83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

145 bars across 9 sections: 91 keep time, 19 are fills, 18 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-38.

CHORUS
BREAK
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesENHS4W+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Bye Bye Babylon?

130 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 Bye Bye Babylon hard to play on drums?

48 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Bye Bye Babylon?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 39, 47, 63, 77, 78, 79 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED
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