Keelhauled · Alestorm

202 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalCountry / Folk150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-55, 67-69 and 71-72, and 10 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 220 BPM
KEELHAULED · BAR 67
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.

LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 220 BPM
BARS 31-32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 220 BPM
BAR 56 · LANDS ON BAR 57

18 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 14 sections: 102 keep time, 35 are fills and 50 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-23.

PART A
PART L
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART U
PART A
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesFLAUJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Keelhauled?

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

Is Keelhauled hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Keelhauled?

22 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 24, 31, 32, 48, 56, 63 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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