Radiant Ascension · Fallujah

115 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / HardcoreProgressive90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
92/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 11 and 13, and 9 more places -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 118 BPM
RADIANT ASCENSION · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19 and 19 more.

LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 9-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BARS 17-20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 118 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

115 bars across 14 sections: 66 keep time, 25 are fills, 4 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 52-64.

CHORUS
PART E
PART I
PART O
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART Z
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBSQOZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radiant Ascension?

118 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 Radiant Ascension hard to play on drums?

92 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?

115 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Radiant Ascension?

13 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 1, 9, 10, 17, 18, 19 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED
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