Fields Of Desolation · Arch Enemy

225 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 5:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:26
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 10-15 and 26-31, and 8 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 165 BPM
FIELDS OF DESOLATION · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 89 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 83 more.

LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 14 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 165 BPM
BAR 47 · LANDS ON BAR 48 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

225 bars across 14 sections: 110 keep time, 89 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO
6 groovesBMQACG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fields Of Desolation?

165 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 Fields Of Desolation hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 13 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 Fields Of Desolation?

13 fills to learn, played 89 times: bars 8, 9, 16, 17, 20, 21 and 83 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED
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