Klendathu · Vale Of Pnath

170 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-6, 30-31 and 85-87, and 3 more places -- 13.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 155 BPM
KLENDATHU · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

28 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 64 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 7-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 155 BPM
BARS 17-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

24 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 18 sections: 74 keep time, 71 are fills and 8 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-118.

PART F
PART S
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART BA
10 groovesASBANF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Klendathu?

155 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 Klendathu hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 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 Klendathu?

28 fills to learn, played 70 times: bars 7, 8, 12, 17, 18, 19 and 64 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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