Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane · Dissection

277 bars at 235 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and upAdvanced
TEMPO
235 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
277
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
96/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 14% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-59, 61-63 and 81-83, and 10 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 235 BPM
RETRIBUTION - STORM OF THE LIGHT'S BANE · BAR 57
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 30, 40, 44 and 42 more.

LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 235 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

277 bars across 25 sections: 184 keep time, 48 are fills, 18 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 85-95.

PART B
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART AS
OUTRO 2
14 groovesSFASACQ+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane?

235 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 Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 84 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

277 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 97 exercises over 32 sittings, about 27 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 Retribution - Storm Of The Light's Bane?

29 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 30, 40, 44 and 42 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 277 BARS ANALYSED
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