Human Sacrifice · Vengeance Rising

15 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 0:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

150 BPM and upFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
15
LENGTH
0:20
DIFFICULTY
69/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 47% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
HUMAN SACRIFICE · BAR 1
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 15
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

15 bars across 2 sections: 13 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

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

Questions

What BPM is Human Sacrifice?

180 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 Human Sacrifice hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

15 bars, about 0:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 3 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Human Sacrifice?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 15.

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