Celestial Destroyer · Blood Chalice

19 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 200 BPM, 0:20 of playing on crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
19
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 12-13 and 15-16 -- 31.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
CELESTIAL DESTROYER · BAR 9
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 14, 17 and 19.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 19
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

19 bars across 2 sections: 12 keep time, 4 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-5.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Destroyer?

200 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Celestial Destroyer hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

19 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Celestial Destroyer?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 11, 14, 17 and 19.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 19 BARS ANALYSED
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