Great Hall Awaits A Fallen Brother · Bathory

285 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
285
LENGTH
8:09
DIFFICULTY
66/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-16, 21-28 and 45-47, and 9 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GREAT HALL AWAITS A FALLEN BROTHER · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 15 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 156 · LANDS ON BAR 157

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

285 bars across 24 sections: 200 keep time, 21 are fills, 10 are stops and 39 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 60-84.

CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART I
PART L
BREAK 4
PART R
PART R
PART U
15 groovesDLRUI+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Great Hall Awaits A Fallen Brother?

140 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 Great Hall Awaits A Fallen Brother hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

285 bars, about 8:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 12 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 Great Hall Awaits A Fallen Brother?

8 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 7, 8, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 285 BARS ANALYSED
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