Dragonheads · Ensiferum

156 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 5:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
5:18
DIFFICULTY
86/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 9 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
DRAGONHEADS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 57, 74 and 13 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 41 · LANDS ON BAR 42

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

156 bars across 16 sections: 96 keep time, 19 are fills, 13 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-22.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART P
PART U
PART A
PART AG
PART AI
PART AL
PART F
OUTRO
BREAK
14 groovesBFALKU+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Dragonheads?

125 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 Dragonheads hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 5:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 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 Dragonheads?

17 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 25, 33, 41, 57, 74 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED
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