Raptors Of Anzu · Melechesh

267 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 5:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
267
LENGTH
5:46
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 40% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 37-39, and 19 more places -- 40% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 185 BPM
RAPTORS OF ANZU · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

31 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 47, 48 and 47 more.

LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 40 · LANDS ON BAR 41
LOOP · 185 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

27 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

267 bars across 27 sections: 162 keep time, 54 are fills, 21 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-23.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
CHORUS 6
CHORUS 7
PART AA
17 groovesEAAAZBKAP+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Raptors Of Anzu?

185 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 Raptors Of Anzu hard to play on drums?

68 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?

267 bars, about 5:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 94 exercises over 25 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 Raptors Of Anzu?

31 fills to learn, played 53 times: bars 24, 32, 40, 44, 47, 48 and 47 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 267 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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