Golden Mouth Of Ruin · Arch

174 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:57 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14-15 and 20, and 17 more places -- 25.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 175 BPM
GOLDEN MOUTH OF RUIN · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 49 more.

LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 8-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 175 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 15 sections: 100 keep time, 55 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART V
PART N
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
8 groovesGNVCAB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Golden Mouth Of Ruin?

175 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 Golden Mouth Of Ruin hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 60 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Golden Mouth Of Ruin?

18 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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