Elizabeth Bathory · Dissection

152 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
5:25
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-19, 21-24 and 33-37, and 4 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
ELIZABETH BATHORY · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 26, 30, 32, 38, 40 and 25 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

152 bars across 13 sections: 68 keep time, 31 are fills, 19 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 101-115.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART S7
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART U
OUTRO
BREAK 2
8 groovesCUFNS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Elizabeth Bathory?

120 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 Elizabeth Bathory hard to play on drums?

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 5:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 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 Elizabeth Bathory?

12 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 26, 30, 32, 38, 40 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED
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