Enslave The Astral Fortress · Naglfar

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
88/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 29-31 and 45, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 85 BPM
ENSLAVE THE ASTRAL FORTRESS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 22, 28, 32 and 28 more.

LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 85 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

104 bars across 11 sections: 56 keep time, 34 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-15.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART J
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFJPAC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Enslave The Astral Fortress?

85 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 Enslave The Astral Fortress hard to play on drums?

88 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 16 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 Enslave The Astral Fortress?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 18, 20, 22, 28, 32 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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