Holy Orders · Guilty Gear

88 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-26, and 10 more places -- 57.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
HOLY ORDERS · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 27, 28, 32 and 12 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

88 bars across 7 sections: 58 keep time, 18 are fills, 3 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 17-26.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO 2
3 groovesELS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Orders?

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 hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 27, 28, 32 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED
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