Hall Of The Mountain King · Apocalyptica

131 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 6:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-44, 83-86 and 91-98, and 1 more place -- 29.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
HALL OF THE MOUNTAIN KING · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 61, 87, 88, 89, 90, 112 and 7 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 87-90 · LANDS ON BAR 91 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 112-114 · LANDS ON BAR 115 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 125-126 · LANDS ON BAR 127 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

131 bars across 15 sections: 98 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 22-44.

CHORUS
PART L
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART L
12 groovesKLPMD+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hall Of The Mountain King?

80 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 Hall Of The Mountain King hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 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 Hall Of The Mountain King?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 61, 87, 88, 89, 90, 112 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED
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