Pagan Fears · Mayhem

240 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 6:10 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
6:10
DIFFICULTY
91/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 49-51, 53-63 and 65-71, and 6 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 155 BPM
PAGAN FEARS · BAR 50
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37
LOOP · 155 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

240 bars across 14 sections: 189 keep time, 26 are fills, 3 are stops and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 146-192.

PART A
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLOAIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pagan Fears?

155 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 Pagan Fears hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 6:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Pagan Fears?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED
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