Ravenous · Arch Enemy

174 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 9-15 and 17-23, and 6 more places -- 27.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 150 BPM
RAVENOUS · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 8 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 18 sections: 110 keep time, 32 are fills, 6 are stops and 7 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 114-124.

CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART M
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCMIOQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ravenous?

150 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 Ravenous hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Ravenous?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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