Lord of the Rings · Galactic Empire

247 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 5:38 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
247
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-62 and 145-151, and 1 more place -- 7.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 170 BPM
LORD OF THE RINGS · BAR 57
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 60, 63, 65 and 23 more.

LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 170 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

247 bars across 20 sections: 99 keep time, 29 are fills, 84 are stops and 20 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 74-87.

PART A
PART S2
PART K
CHORUS
PART AA
PART AG
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART AV
PART AW
PART BF
18 groovesRAAGAWAP+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lord of the Rings?

170 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 Lord of the Rings hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 72 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

247 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 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 Lord of the Rings?

15 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 40, 52, 60, 63, 65 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 247 BARS ANALYSED
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