Kingdom · Devin Townsend

212 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalProgressive150 BPM and up
TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
212
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 81-83, 85-87 and 89-91, and 10 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 176 BPM
KINGDOM · BAR 81
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 48, 64, 72, 84, 88 and 10 more.

LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89
LOOP · 176 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

212 bars across 13 sections: 158 keep time, 16 are fills and 21 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 177-205.

PART A
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
8 groovesHDPMC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Kingdom?

176 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 Kingdom hard to play on drums?

61 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

212 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Kingdom?

10 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 40, 48, 64, 72, 84, 88 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 212 BARS ANALYSED
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