Krig · Gorgoroth

113 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 2:33 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:33
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 25-31, and 9 more places -- 35.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 174 BPM
KRIG · BAR 1
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 35 and 24 more.

LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 174 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 9 sections: 66 keep time, 30 are fills, 9 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-7.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S4
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesASDS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Krig?

174 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 Krig hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 Krig?

13 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 34, 35 and 24 more.

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