Radix Malorum · Gorgoroth

164 bars at 211 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
211 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
100/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-40, 43-48 and 51-56, and 5 more places -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 211 BPM
RADIX MALORUM · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 66, 82, 83, 132 and 2 more.

LOOP · 211 BPM
BARS 16-17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67
LOOP · 211 BPM
BAR 132 · LANDS ON BAR 133
LOOP · 211 BPM
BARS 163-164 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

164 bars across 16 sections: 143 keep time, 8 are fills and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 35-65.

PART E
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGLEBA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Radix Malorum?

211 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 Radix Malorum hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 80 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 11 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 Radix Malorum?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 17, 66, 82, 83, 132 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED
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