conqueror · Pentakill

127 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:04
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7 and 9, and 13 more places -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
CONQUEROR · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20 and 43 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 26-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 9 sections: 67 keep time and 49 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 118-127.

PART C
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AH
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCABAKAJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is conqueror?

125 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 conqueror hard to play on drums?

63 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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?

11 fills to learn, played 49 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 12, 20 and 43 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
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