ISHTAR · Deviloof

215 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 35 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 250 BPM
ISHTAR · BAR 144
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 16 and 26 more.

LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 250 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10

21 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 15 sections: 102 keep time, 32 are fills, 64 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 182-197.

PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AF
PART I
OUTRO
11 groovesBIAPRAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is ISHTAR?

250 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 ISHTAR hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 19 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 ISHTAR?

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 16 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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