Departure Drum · Galneryus

212 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 67-68, and 13 more places -- 26.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 178 BPM
DEPARTURE DRUM · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 18-22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

19 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 19 sections: 96 keep time, 69 are fills, 10 are stops and 18 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 183-195.

COUNT-IN
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART BB
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
14 groovesINS1BBP+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Departure Drum?

178 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 Departure Drum hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 22 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 Departure Drum?

22 fills to learn, played 69 times: bars 14, 15, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 63 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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