Princess of the Dawn · Accept

287 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 6:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
287
LENGTH
6:27
DIFFICULTY
51/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 62 and 66-120, and 19 more places -- 56.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 178 BPM
PRINCESS OF THE DAWN · BAR 39
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 20, 21, 61, 231, 267 and 2 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4
LOOP · 178 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 61 · LANDS ON BAR 62
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 231 · LANDS ON BAR 232 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

287 bars across 14 sections: 206 keep time, 8 are fills, 57 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-58.

PART H
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
10 groovesKHS2S4G+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Princess of the Dawn?

178 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 Princess of the Dawn hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

287 bars, about 6:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Princess of the Dawn?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 3, 20, 21, 61, 231, 267 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 287 BARS ANALYSED
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