Knight of Sword / Unlucky Morpheus · Unlucky Morpheus

213 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 5:04 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
213
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 52-54, 56-58 and 60-63, and 8 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 · 168 BPM
KNIGHT OF SWORD / UNLUCKY MORPHEUS · BAR 52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 79 more.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 168 BPM
BARS 6-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

213 bars across 22 sections: 94 keep time, 85 are fills and 12 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 77-83.

PART G
CHORUS
PART AH
PART V
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
11 groovesAAGTVAX+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Knight of Sword / Unlucky Morpheus?

168 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 Knight of Sword / Unlucky Morpheus hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

213 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 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 Knight of Sword / Unlucky Morpheus?

29 fills to learn, played 85 times: bars 4, 6, 7, 8, 10, 12 and 79 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 213 BARS ANALYSED
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