Countess Bathory · Venom

120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9-11, and 15 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
COUNTESS BATHORY · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 13 sections: 59 keep time, 2 are fills, 45 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 75-82.

CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCFAS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Countess Bathory?

140 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 Countess Bathory hard to play on drums?

57 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Countess Bathory?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 4.

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