Into The Dead Sky · At The Gates

55 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 132 BPM, 1:16 of playing on crash, snare and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
55
LENGTH
1:16
DIFFICULTY
34/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 96% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-33 and 35-54 -- 96.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
INTO THE DEAD SKY · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

55 bars across 3 sections: 1 keeps time, 49 are stops and 4 are silent.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesS2BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Into The Dead Sky?

132 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Into The Dead Sky hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

55 bars, about 1:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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