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Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented) · Bring Me The Horizon

EXERCISE 6 OF 62
Groove S
17 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART T
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART T
PART V
PART Y
OUTRO
BREAK 3
11 groovesENAIYC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented) on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, snare through bars 33-43, ride through bars 44-49, hi-hat through bars 50-53, snare through bars 54-58 and silence through bars 59-61, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 62-64, 66-68 and 70-72 -- 12.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62                       63
    1.......2.......3....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------|----------------x-------x-------|
BD |x---x---x---x-----------|x---x---x---x-------------------|
Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 17, 19, 23 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- AI -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 9-20 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented)?

112 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 Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 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 Dragon Slaying (2026 Repented)?

15 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 11, 12, 17, 19, 23 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED