Ov Fire and the Void · Behemoth

144 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
87/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 33% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 57-63, and 4 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OV FIRE AND THE VOID · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 47, 48, 55 and 20 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 47-48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

144 bars across 13 sections: 104 keep time, 26 are fills and 3 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 129-144.

PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART X
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOXQLC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ov Fire and the Void?

130 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 Ov Fire and the Void hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 19 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 Ov Fire and the Void?

13 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 16, 40, 47, 48, 55 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED
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