Raise my Sword Seminar · SYU

611 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 13:20 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
611
LENGTH
13:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 30% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 19-21 and 23-25, and 40 more places -- 30% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 184 BPM
RAISE MY SWORD SEMINAR · BAR 3
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

55 fills to learn, played 175 times: bars 10, 14, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 169 more.

LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BARS 17-18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 184 BPM
BAR 22 · LANDS ON BAR 23 · PLAYED 17 TIMES

51 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

611 bars across 52 sections: 358 keep time, 175 are fills, 8 are stops and 10 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 572-592.

CHORUS 8
CHORUS 13
30 groovesBDDGLV+25Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raise my Sword Seminar?

184 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 Raise my Sword Seminar hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

611 bars, about 13:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 187 exercises over 55 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 Raise my Sword Seminar?

55 fills to learn, played 175 times: bars 10, 14, 17, 18, 22, 26 and 169 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 611 BARS ANALYSED
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