Hymn of the Ancients · Carnal

185 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58-65, 68-73 and 152-159, and 1 more place -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
HYMN OF THE ANCIENTS · BARS 58-59
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 17 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 22-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 23 are fills, 26 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 41-55.

PART D
CHORUS
PART T
PART AG
CHORUS 2
PART T
10 groovesOTDAGM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Hymn of the Ancients?

125 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hymn of the Ancients hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 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 Hymn of the Ancients?

9 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 15 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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