Guardian (Deltarune) · Toby Fox

248 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 7:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
248
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 61 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 140 BPM
GUARDIAN (DELTARUNE) · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 102, 104, 106, 108, 234, 236 and 2 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 102 · LANDS ON BAR 103 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

248 bars across 15 sections: 212 keep time, 8 are fills and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-82.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
BREAK 3
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 5
CHORUS 6
8 groovesBFIS8S10+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Guardian (Deltarune)?

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 Guardian (Deltarune) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

248 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Guardian (Deltarune)?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 102, 104, 106, 108, 234, 236 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 248 BARS ANALYSED
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