Prophecy of Ragnarök · Brothers Of Metal

124 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
93/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 25% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 43-45 and 47-49, and 7 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 135 BPM
PROPHECY OF RAGNARÖK · BAR 20
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 22, 30, 34, 46 and 10 more.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 135 BPM
BAR 34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

124 bars across 17 sections: 88 keep time, 16 are fills, 5 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 103-115.

PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesHJQLE+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Prophecy of Ragnarök?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Prophecy of Ragnarök hard to play on drums?

93 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 88 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Prophecy of Ragnarök?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 5, 13, 22, 30, 34, 46 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED
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