Lords of Destruction · TYRANID

103 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 25-26, and 8 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
LORDS OF DESTRUCTION · BAR 79
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 27, 28, 32 and 9 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 27-28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

103 bars across 15 sections: 69 keep time, 15 are fills, 2 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-100.

CHORUS 2
PART H
PART Q
PART T
PART V
CHORUS 4
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEVMQH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Lords of Destruction?

150 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 Lords of Destruction hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Lords of Destruction?

11 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 24, 27, 28, 32 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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