Fight With Seymour · The Black Mages

153 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26, 37 and 39-45, and 8 more places -- 38.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FIGHT WITH SEYMOUR · BAR 22
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 27, 68, 70 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 1-3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 70 · LANDS ON BAR 71 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

153 bars across 17 sections: 89 keep time, 19 are fills, 17 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 39-67.

PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART H
PART H
OUTRO
10 groovesEHDQS17+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight With Seymour?

130 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 Fight With Seymour hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fight With Seymour?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 27, 68, 70 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED
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