Colossus · Borknagar

170 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 121 BPM, 4:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
121 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-88, 106-112 and 122-128, and 1 more place -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 121 BPM
COLOSSUS · BAR 83
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 60, 61 and 9 more.

LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 81 · LANDS ON BAR 82 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 121 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 20 sections: 124 keep time, 15 are fills, 1 is a stop and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 155-168.

PART J
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPVFHJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Colossus?

121 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Colossus hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 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 Colossus?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 32, 44, 48, 56, 60, 61 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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