Dragon Force · Unlucky Morpheus

181 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 41-47 and 75-77, and 5 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
DRAGON FORCE · BAR 15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 38 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 170 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 17 sections: 107 keep time, 44 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 139-149.

PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART N
5 groovesHGKNJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragon Force?

170 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 Dragon Force hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dragon Force?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 16, 24 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
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