Relentless Dawn · Winter Downfall

160 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 3:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
74/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 17% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-9, 11-16 and 59-65, and 1 more place -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 210 BPM
RELENTLESS DAWN · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 42 and 12 more.

LOOP · 210 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 210 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

9 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

160 bars across 14 sections: 113 keep time, 18 are fills and 13 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 91-105.

PART B
PART J
PART O
PART L
PART B
PART J
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART O
OUTRO
9 groovesUBJOD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Relentless Dawn?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Relentless Dawn hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 61 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 19 sittings, about 25 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 Relentless Dawn?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 10, 18, 26, 42 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED
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