Harbinger Official · Polaris

95 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:23
DIFFICULTY
52/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 24% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-32, and 1 more place -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HARBINGER OFFICIAL · BARS 10-11
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 42, 43 and 12 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 42-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

95 bars across 7 sections: 48 keep time, 18 are fills, 20 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-34.

PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesREMIS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Harbinger Official?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Harbinger Official hard to play on drums?

52 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 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, 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 Harbinger Official?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 42, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED
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