Fangorn · Battlelore

181 bars of 4/4 at 151 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
181
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 9, and 45 more places -- 27% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 151 BPM
FANGORN · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 29 more.

LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 151 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

181 bars across 9 sections: 133 keep time, 35 are fills, 1 is a stop and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-65.

CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIPTY+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fangorn?

151 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fangorn hard to play on drums?

51 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

181 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 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 Fangorn?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 181 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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