Conqueror · Aura Noir

157 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:56 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 29-30 and 67, and 6 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
CONQUEROR · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 20 and 33 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

15 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

157 bars across 19 sections: 93 keep time, 39 are fills, 3 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 142-151.

CHORUS 2
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART X
CHORUS 4
PART AK
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAIXKAK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Conqueror?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Conqueror hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 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 Conqueror?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 7, 8, 12, 14, 20 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED
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