Necropolis · Manilla Road

174 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 65% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 8-10, and 33 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 210 BPM
NECROPOLIS · BAR 4
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95 and 4 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 87 · LANDS ON BAR 88
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 89 · LANDS ON BAR 90
LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 91-93 · LANDS ON BAR 94 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 95 · LANDS ON BAR 96

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 6 sections: 151 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-84.

CHORUS
PART S3
CHORUS 2
5 groovesBS3S5AS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Necropolis?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Necropolis hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Necropolis?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 87, 89, 91, 92, 93, 95 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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