I Am The Black Wizards (Version2) · Emperor

185 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalElectronic150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 82-99, 101-103 and 105-107, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
I AM THE BLACK WIZARDS (VERSION2) · BAR 85
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 32 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

185 bars across 11 sections: 119 keep time, 38 are fills, 10 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 83-99.

PART S4
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOBAEXS4+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Am The Black Wizards (Version2)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Am The Black Wizards (Version2) hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 86 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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 I Am The Black Wizards (Version2)?

20 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 36, 40 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED
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