Ov Sword and Nail · Worm Shepherd

134 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
98/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-30, 44 and 58, and 5 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 130 BPM
OV SWORD AND NAIL · BAR 28
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 31, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 9 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 31 · LANDS ON BAR 32
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 46-49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 18 sections: 89 keep time, 15 are fills, 3 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 119-134.

PART D
PART K
PART R
PART T
PART Z
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesPNZTD+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ov Sword and Nail?

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 Sword and Nail hard to play on drums?

98 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 79 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 18 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 Ov Sword and Nail?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 31, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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