Lake Of Fire · Bathory

87 bars, 4:58, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
43/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 69% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 27 and 31-45, and 9 more places -- 68.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 70 BPM
LAKE OF FIRE · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 56 and 78.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

87 bars across 4 sections: 76 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-29.

CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lake Of Fire?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Lake Of Fire hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 5 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Lake Of Fire?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 30, 56 and 78.

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