For The Dark Gods · Montfaucon

126 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 17 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
FOR THE DARK GODS · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 41, 42, 43 and 22 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 41-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

143 bars across 16 sections: 54 keep time, 28 are fills, 19 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 27-32.

PART H
PART K
PART O
PART H
PART S12
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAHS16BK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is For The Dark Gods?

135 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 For The Dark Gods hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 3:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 For The Dark Gods?

12 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 21, 25, 33, 41, 42, 43 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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