Disciples Of Babylon · Dragonforce

166 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
94/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 30-32, and 2 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 98 BPM
DISCIPLES OF BABYLON · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 93 more.

LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 4-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 8-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 98 BPM
BARS 23-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

166 bars across 19 sections: 41 keep time, 99 are fills, 2 are stops and 7 are silent.

CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S12
PART AT
PART AT
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGATLOS12+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Disciples Of Babylon?

98 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 Disciples Of Babylon hard to play on drums?

94 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 70 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 67 exercises over 25 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 Disciples Of Babylon?

28 fills to learn, played 99 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10 and 93 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED
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