Game Of Thrones Main Theme · Ramin Djawadi

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 170 BPM, 1:34 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Electronic150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
1:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 42-43, 46-47 and 50-51, and 8 more places -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 170 BPM
GAME OF THRONES MAIN THEME · BARS 42-43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 61, 65 and 6 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 11 TIMES
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 73 · LANDS ON BAR 74
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 5 sections: 49 keep time, 12 are fills, 16 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-52.

PART S2
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesJBHS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Game Of Thrones Main Theme?

170 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Game Of Thrones Main Theme 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 1:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 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 Game Of Thrones Main Theme?

2 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 57, 61, 65 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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