Key To The Gate · Burzum

121 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 138 BPM, 4:46 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-49, 51-53 and 55-57, and 2 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 138 BPM
KEY TO THE GATE · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 138 BPM
BAR 58 · LANDS ON BAR 59

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 12 sections: 49 keep time, 19 are fills, 6 are stops and 38 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 82-92.

PART H
PART S7
PART M
PART S9
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesS12MHTI+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Key To The Gate?

138 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Key To The Gate hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 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 Key To The Gate?

5 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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