Palace Of Dread · Thousand Below

148 bars at 168 BPM -- fast, and 3:31 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
168 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
148
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 35% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-6, 9-10 and 37, and 21 more places -- 34.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 168 BPM
PALACE OF DREAD · BAR 6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 128 and 132.

LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 128 · LANDS ON BAR 129
LOOP · 168 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

148 bars across 16 sections: 112 keep time, 3 are fills, 7 are stops and 22 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-35.

PART D
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
BREAK 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBMDS12J+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Palace Of Dread?

168 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 Palace Of Dread hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

148 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Palace Of Dread?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 68, 128 and 132.

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