Holy Wars... The Punishment Due · Megadeath

253 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 6:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
253
LENGTH
6:20
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 21% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-34, 58-59 and 63-65, and 4 more places -- 20.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
HOLY WARS... THE PUNISHMENT DUE · BAR 14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 49, 50, 51 and 23 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 5-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 49-51 · LANDS ON BAR 52 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 66-67 · LANDS ON BAR 68 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

253 bars across 26 sections: 173 keep time, 32 are fills, 12 are stops and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 9-34.

CHORUS
PART F
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART AR
PART AT
OUTRO
22 groovesEARAVATG+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Holy Wars... The Punishment Due?

160 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 Holy Wars... The Punishment Due hard to play on drums?

57 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

253 bars, about 6:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 74 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Wars... The Punishment Due?

11 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 49, 50, 51 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 253 BARS ANALYSED
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