Ouroboros · Slaughter To Prevail

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
89/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 32-33, 36-37 and 78-79, and 1 more place -- 6.3% 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
OUROBOROS · BARS 32-33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 50 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 8-15 · LANDS ON BAR 16 · PLAYED 16 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 19-23 · LANDS ON BAR 24 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

10 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

129 bars across 17 sections: 52 keep time, 56 are fills, 6 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-60.

PART S3
PART M
CHORUS
PART AJ
PART S10
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesZMAJAVAZ+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ouroboros?

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 Ouroboros hard to play on drums?

89 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Ouroboros?

14 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED
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