King Of A Stellar War · Rotting Christ

297 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 6:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
297
LENGTH
6:11
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 65-80, 113-128 and 185-216, and 1 more place -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
KING OF A STELLAR WAR · BAR 66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 24 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 144 BPM
BARS 23-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

297 bars across 25 sections: 221 keep time, 30 are fills, 18 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 186-216.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S14
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
6 groovesFIKAJ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is King Of A Stellar War?

144 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 King Of A Stellar War hard to play on drums?

51 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

297 bars, about 6:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 King Of A Stellar War?

6 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 23, 24, 31, 32 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 297 BARS ANALYSED
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