Ragnarok · Periphery

133 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

ProgressiveMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 19% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 58, 102-116 and 118-124 -- 18.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 125 BPM
RAGNAROK · BARS 102-103
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 81 more.

LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 1-6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 125 BPM
BARS 12-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 46 TIMES
LOOP · 125 BPM
BAR 59 · LANDS ON BAR 60

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 6 sections: 20 keep time, 87 are fills, 14 are stops and 10 are silent.

CHORUS
PART AQ
PART S3
PART BA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCAPAQBAS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ragnarok?

125 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Ragnarok hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

133 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ragnarok?

9 fills to learn, played 87 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 81 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 133 BARS ANALYSED
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