Godless Times · Rings Of Saturn

218 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreMetal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
218
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-33, 35 and 37, and 9 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 250 BPM
GODLESS TIMES · BARS 17-18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 68, 72, 96, 104, 105, 106 and 16 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97
LOOP · 250 BPM
BARS 104-106 · LANDS ON BAR 107 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 110 · LANDS ON BAR 111

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

218 bars across 11 sections: 137 keep time, 22 are fills, 17 are stops and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-64.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART S5
PART T
PART A
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAADS5T+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Godless Times?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Godless Times hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

218 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Godless Times?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 68, 72, 96, 104, 105, 106 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 218 BARS ANALYSED
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