Ravage of Humanity · Return to Glory

149 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16 and 18, and 6 more places -- 9.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
RAVAGE OF HUMANITY · BAR 21
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 11 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

149 bars across 13 sections: 88 keep time, 17 are fills, 22 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-49.

PART E
PART I
PART O
PART X
PART Z
PART AF
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
12 groovesANEIXN+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ravage of Humanity?

150 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 Ravage of Humanity hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Ravage of Humanity?

13 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED
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