Cry Of Achilles · Alter Bridge

225 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 6:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
6:58
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 38-40, and 12 more places -- 31% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 129 BPM
CRY OF ACHILLES · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 12 more.

LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 75 · LANDS ON BAR 76
LOOP · 129 BPM
BAR 83 · LANDS ON BAR 84 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 26 sections: 138 keep time, 18 are fills, 23 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-111.

COUNT-IN
PART J
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 8
13 groovesDJOS1V+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cry Of Achilles?

129 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Cry Of Achilles hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 6:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Cry Of Achilles?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 25, 29, 37, 41, 49, 53 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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