Papyrus Containing the Spell... · Nile

113 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
99/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 9 more.

LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 156 BPM
BARS 24-27 · LANDS ON BAR 28 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 156 BPM
BAR 54 · LANDS ON BAR 55 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 11 sections: 70 keep time, 17 are fills and 15 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-38.

PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART O
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFOBRLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Papyrus Containing the Spell...?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Papyrus Containing the Spell... hard to play on drums?

99 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 100 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 10 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 Papyrus Containing the Spell...?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 1, 19, 24, 25, 26, 27 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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