Reign Of Darkness · Thy Art Is Murder

121 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPMAdvanced
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 10% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-27, 30-31 and 34-35, and 2 more places -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 140 BPM
REIGN OF DARKNESS · BARS 26-27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 49, 54, 55 and 14 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 42-43 · LANDS ON BAR 44 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 140 BPM
BARS 54-57 · LANDS ON BAR 58 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

121 bars across 14 sections: 59 keep time, 20 are fills, 1 is a stop and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-41.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
PART V
PART S11
PART AB
11 groovesERS1ABN+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Reign Of Darkness?

140 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 Reign Of Darkness hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 Reign Of Darkness?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 25, 42, 43, 49, 54, 55 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED
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