Dawn And Demise (Closely Accurate Chart) V2 · Necrophagist

118 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO

122 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

118

LENGTH

3:51

DIFFICULTY

98/100

ride through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-11, ride through bars 12-48, hi-hat through bars 49-78, toms through bars 79-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-83, and 1 more change after that.

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 17-18 and 23-24, and 5 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                                               14
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|x---------------x-----------------------x---x---x-------x-------|
RD |----x---x---x---x---x---x---x-------x---x---x-------------------|----x---x---x-------x---x---x---x-------------------------------|
HH |----------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------x-------x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-x-------------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x---------------x---------------|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------x-----|----------------------------------------------------------------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------x-x---------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
FT |--------------------------------------------------------x---x-x-|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-----------------|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-------x---x---x---x---x---x---|

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 15 and 36 more.

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
4. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
5. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
7. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
8. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
9. and 10 more sittings after that.