In The Constellation Of Black Widow · Anaal Nathrakh

126 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 26 and 28, and 18 more places -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 120 BPM
IN THE CONSTELLATION OF BLACK WIDOW · BAR 24
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 31, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 31 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 42 · LANDS ON BAR 43 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

126 bars across 16 sections: 62 keep time, 37 are fills, 9 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 25-30.

PART A
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEJMACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is In The Constellation Of Black Widow?

120 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 In The Constellation Of Black Widow hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 13 sittings, about 23 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 In The Constellation Of Black Widow?

10 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 31, 32, 34, 36, 40, 42 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED
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