Gates Of Babylon · Rainbow

182 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 6:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
6:06
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 15, and 13 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
GATES OF BABYLON · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 16, 21, 24 and 45 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

182 bars across 20 sections: 92 keep time, 51 are fills, 12 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-91.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Q
PART U
PART I
PART AE
OUTRO 2
10 groovesEUIQAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gates Of Babylon?

120 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 Gates Of Babylon hard to play on drums?

62 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?

182 bars, about 6:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Gates Of Babylon?

20 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 16, 21, 24 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED
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