Prayer · Gorgoroth

135 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 145 BPM, 3:32 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletAdvanced
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 36-38 and 40-41, and 15 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
PRAYER · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 18, 19, 34 and 44 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 10-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BARS 18-19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 39 · LANDS ON BAR 40 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

135 bars across 4 sections: 81 keep time, 50 are fills and 1 is a stop. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 20-33.

PART D
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prayer?

145 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Prayer hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 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 Prayer?

11 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 3, 10, 11, 18, 19, 34 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED
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