Pale Tortured Blue · Draconian

136 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 62% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 15 more places -- 61.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 90 BPM
PALE TORTURED BLUE · BAR 41
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 40, 48, 64, 68 and 9 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

136 bars across 6 sections: 42 keep time, 15 are fills, 68 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 81-88.

COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBGS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pale Tortured Blue?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Pale Tortured Blue 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Pale Tortured Blue?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 12, 16, 40, 48, 64, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED
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