Pagan Sons · Brimstone

219 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
219
LENGTH
6:02
DIFFICULTY
64/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 31% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 51-55, 59-65 and 67-72, and 7 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PAGAN SONS · BARS 51-52
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 48, 66, 78, 82, 86 and 18 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 78 · LANDS ON BAR 79 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

219 bars across 16 sections: 156 keep time, 24 are fills, 14 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 18-47.

PART D
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFNDAK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pagan Sons?

145 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 Pagan Sons hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

219 bars, about 6:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 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 Sons?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 12, 48, 66, 78, 82, 86 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 219 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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