O Father O Satan O Sun! · Behemoth

133 bars, 8:53, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
8:53
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 93-99, 101-107 and 109-115, and 2 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 60 BPM
O FATHER O SATAN O SUN! · BAR 95
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 36-44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 68-74 · LANDS ON BAR 75 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 7 sections: 96 keep time, 25 are fills, 5 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-8.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesETBRA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is O Father O Satan O Sun!?

60 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 O Father O Satan O Sun! hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 8:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 O Father O Satan O Sun!?

5 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 20, 28, 36, 37, 38, 39 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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