Legions Of The Black Light · Watain

364 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 7:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
364
LENGTH
7:48
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 130-136, 138-145 and 300-306, and 3 more places -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
LEGIONS OF THE BLACK LIGHT · BARS 130-131
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 54 and 32 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41

17 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

364 bars across 34 sections: 235 keep time, 38 are fills, 30 are stops and 34 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 178-192.

PART D
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
23 groovesAGZDOQ+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Legions Of The Black Light?

180 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 Legions Of The Black Light hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

364 bars, about 7:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 92 exercises over 25 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Legions Of The Black Light?

21 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 32, 40, 54 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 364 BARS ANALYSED
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