Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times · Emperor

230 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
230
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37-39, and 23 more places -- 35.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 170 BPM
COSMIC KEYS TO MY CREATIONS AND TIMES · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 59 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 11-12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 15-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

230 bars across 23 sections: 118 keep time, 65 are fills, 4 are stops and 31 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 109-115.

PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
13 groovesLBAES17AI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times?

170 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 Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

230 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Cosmic Keys To My Creations and Times?

22 fills to learn, played 65 times: bars 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18 and 59 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 230 BARS ANALYSED
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