Light Infernal · Infernal Storm

138 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
97/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
LIGHT INFERNAL · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 30 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 22-24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

138 bars across 18 sections: 75 keep time, 36 are fills, 5 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-125.

PART B
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesNGJMAC+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Light Infernal?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Light Infernal hard to play on drums?

97 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 93 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 21 sittings, about 28 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 Light Infernal?

20 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 4, 8, 16, 22, 23, 24 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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