Ordained Fall · Athgowla

155 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-29, 31-33 and 35-37, and 5 more places -- 18.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 200 BPM
ORDAINED FALL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 95, 107, 141 and 1 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 141 · LANDS ON BAR 142 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

155 bars across 15 sections: 99 keep time, 7 are fills, 15 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 70-85.

COUNT-IN
PART B
PART D
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
BREAK 3
12 groovesNEGS1B+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ordained Fall?

200 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 Ordained Fall hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Ordained Fall?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 30, 42, 95, 107, 141 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED
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