Lord of Flies · Shrine of Malice, Tom Barber

377 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 7:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
377
LENGTH
7:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-44, 47 and 51-52, and 21 more places -- 14.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
LORD OF FLIES · BAR 43
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

26 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 81 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 22-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 30-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 36-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 12 TIMES

22 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

377 bars across 39 sections: 163 keep time, 87 are fills, 39 are stops and 68 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-84.

CHORUS
PART B
BREAK 8
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
26 groovesSLRWB+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lord of Flies?

210 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 Lord of Flies hard to play on drums?

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

377 bars, about 7:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 96 exercises over 26 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Lord of Flies?

26 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 18, 22, 23, 24, 25, 30 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 377 BARS ANALYSED
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