His Twenty-Fourth Spring · Drudkh

304 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 9:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
304
LENGTH
9:00
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 33-48 and 257-272, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
HIS TWENTY-FOURTH SPRING · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 28 and 20 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 30-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

304 bars across 17 sections: 203 keep time, 26 are fills, 16 are stops and 46 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 162-191.

CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S4
PART L
PART S8
PART H
PART L
PART P
PART R
PART P
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
9 groovesAPLRS4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is His Twenty-Fourth Spring?

135 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 His Twenty-Fourth Spring hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

304 bars, about 9:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 15 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 His Twenty-Fourth Spring?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 19, 20, 22, 24, 27, 28 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 304 BARS ANALYSED
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