Hester Prynne · As Blood Runs Black

221 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
221
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 36 and 66, and 18 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 235 BPM
HESTER PRYNNE · BAR 146
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 46 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BARS 4-5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

221 bars across 28 sections: 91 keep time, 52 are fills, 44 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-145.

PART V
PART AL
PART AW
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
18 groovesHRBJVAE+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hester Prynne?

235 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 Hester Prynne hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

221 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 98 exercises over 24 sittings, about 29 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 Hester Prynne?

29 fills to learn, played 52 times: bars 4, 5, 9, 13, 17, 21 and 46 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 221 BARS ANALYSED
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