Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) · Guilty Gear XX

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 22-24, and 5 more places -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOLY ORDERS (BE JUST OR BE DEAD) · BAR 16
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 11 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 8 sections: 57 keep time, 17 are fills, 3 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-88.

COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesHLES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead)?

120 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 Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead) hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

89 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Holy Orders (Be Just Or Be Dead)?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 13, 17, 21, 25, 29 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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