Emerald Sword · Rhapsody

192 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
192
LENGTH
4:17
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 26-40 and 58-72, and 5 more places -- 54% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
EMERALD SWORD · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 21, 25, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 19 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 41-42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

192 bars across 14 sections: 122 keep time, 25 are fills, 35 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 160-182.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesBQCPA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Emerald Sword?

180 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 Emerald Sword hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

192 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 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 Emerald Sword?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 21, 25, 41, 42, 44, 46 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 192 BARS ANALYSED
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