Mysterious Kingdom · Lord Belial

227 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 6:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
227
LENGTH
6:00
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 91-97, 99-106 and 139-154 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 135 BPM
MYSTERIOUS KINGDOM · BAR 92
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 7 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

227 bars across 19 sections: 182 keep time, 13 are fills, 3 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 156-185.

PART C
PART A
PART L
PART N
PART V
PART X
PART V
CHORUS
PART AF
16 groovesAAVXAAF+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Mysterious Kingdom?

135 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 Mysterious Kingdom hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

227 bars, about 6:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Mysterious Kingdom?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 20, 24, 28 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 227 BARS ANALYSED
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