Gutter Ballet · Savatage

149 bars, 29:21, at 20 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
20 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
29:21
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 46, 48-51 and 73-75, and 9 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 20 BPM
GUTTER BALLET · BARS 48-49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 44, 45, 71, 72, 76 and 8 more.

LOOP · 20 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35
LOOP · 20 BPM
BAR 76 · LANDS ON BAR 77 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 20 BPM
BAR 99 · LANDS ON BAR 100

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 15 sections: 71 keep time, 14 are fills, 25 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 88-98.

PART S2
PART D
PART A
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesJAS2XO+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Gutter Ballet?

20 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Gutter Ballet hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 29:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, 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 Gutter Ballet?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 34, 44, 45, 71, 72, 76 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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