Pandemonium War Bells · 1349

232 bars, 19:01, at 50 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

MetalRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
50 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
19:01
DIFFICULTY
85/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 12-14 and 22-25, and 9 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 50 BPM
PANDEMONIUM WAR BELLS · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18 and 25 more.

LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 50 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

232 bars across 26 sections: 167 keep time, 31 are fills, 5 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 216-227.

CHORUS 3
PART P
PART T
CHORUS 4
PART X
PART AA
PART T
PART AA
PART AK
OUTRO
18 groovesBAATADAK+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Pandemonium War Bells?

50 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pandemonium War Bells hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 83 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 19:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Pandemonium War Bells?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 11, 15, 18 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED
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