Grimorio Hyboriano I · Hyborian Grimoire

104 bars of 8/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 5:46 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
8/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 1 more place -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
GRIMORIO HYBORIANO I · BARS 37-38
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 38, 40 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

208 bars across 12 sections: 72 keep time, 15 are fills and 106 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-49.

CHORUS
PART N
OUTRO
BREAK
12 groovesS12KUNA+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Grimorio Hyboriano I?

150 BPM, in 8/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Grimorio Hyboriano I hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 91 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Grimorio Hyboriano I?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 38, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED
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