Millennium Sun · Angra

142 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 71 BPM, 11:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalProgressiveUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
11:50
DIFFICULTY
32/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 39-45, and 2 more places -- 28.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 71 BPM
MILLENNIUM SUN · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 11 more.

LOOP · 71 BPM
BARS 5-8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 71 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

142 bars across 11 sections: 67 keep time, 17 are fills and 50 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-27.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART P
BREAK
9 groovesS11FMPD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Millennium Sun?

71 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Millennium Sun hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 11:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 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 Millennium Sun?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 16, 28 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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