Midnight Queen · Sarcófago

97 bars, 6:47, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalUnder 90 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
6:47
DIFFICULTY
75/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-86 -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 55 BPM
MIDNIGHT QUEEN · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30 and 12 more.

LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 55 BPM
BARS 33-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

97 bars across 11 sections: 58 keep time, 18 are fills, 1 is a stop and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 76-86.

PART S1
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART AA
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNADHS1Z+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Midnight Queen?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Midnight Queen hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 6:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 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 Midnight Queen?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 21, 22, 23, 24, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED
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