Masquerade · Versailles

262 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 5:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
262
LENGTH
5:49
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 169-174, 177-181 and 202-211, and 2 more places -- 12.4% 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
MASQUERADE · BAR 169
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 35, 36, 68 and 50 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

262 bars across 26 sections: 153 keep time, 56 are fills, 15 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 54-67.

PART D
PART R
PART AF
PART BA
CHORUS
PART AF
CHORUS 2
PART CE
20 groovesBOAFRABA+15Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Masquerade?

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 Masquerade hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

262 bars, about 5:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 93 exercises over 29 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Masquerade?

29 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 35, 36, 68 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 262 BARS ANALYSED
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