History Of Times To Come · Altaria

158 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 45% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 7, and 19 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
HISTORY OF TIMES TO COME · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 18, 42, 74, 98, 110 and 3 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 74 · LANDS ON BAR 75
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 98 · LANDS ON BAR 99

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

158 bars across 4 sections: 119 keep time, 9 are fills, 27 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 135-158.

OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is History Of Times To Come?

140 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 History Of Times To Come 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 4 sittings, about 31 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 History Of Times To Come?

7 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 2, 18, 42, 74, 98, 110 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED
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