Gothic · Paradise Lost

162 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 4:16 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 6 and 10, and 21 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 146 BPM
GOTHIC · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 146 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

162 bars across 8 sections: 68 keep time, 24 are fills and 62 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 42-49.

CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAKOIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gothic?

146 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 Gothic hard to play on drums?

55 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, 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 Gothic?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED
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