Celestial Sacrifice · Death Impending

102 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 100 BPM
CELESTIAL SACRIFICE · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 and 15 more.

LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BARS 14-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 100 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART Q
PART T
BREAK
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS6IDAT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Celestial Sacrifice?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Celestial Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Celestial Sacrifice?

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 21 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED
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