Herald of Darkness · Old Gods Of Asgard [feat. Alan Wake & Mr. Door]

524 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 13:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressive150 BPM and upShuffle / tripletBeginner
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
524
LENGTH
13:26
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-22, 27-34 and 37-52, and 13 more places -- 33.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 156 BPM
HERALD OF DARKNESS · BARS 15-16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 14, 53, 54, 96, 106 and 33 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 53-54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 184 · LANDS ON BAR 185

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

524 bars across 35 sections: 316 keep time, 39 are fills, 67 are stops and 77 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 283-297.

CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 5
PART S32
16 groovesGQSS32D+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Herald of Darkness?

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

Is Herald of Darkness hard to play on drums?

59 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

524 bars, about 13:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Herald of Darkness?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 4, 14, 53, 54, 96, 106 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 524 BARS ANALYSED
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