Revelations 13-1 (Beast) · Binding of Isaac

254 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 160 BPM, 7:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
254
LENGTH
7:43
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 6% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 3 more places -- 5.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 160 BPM
REVELATIONS 13-1 (BEAST) · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 29, 49 and 57 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BARS 20-21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

254 bars across 20 sections: 102 keep time, 63 are fills, 18 are stops and 45 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-69.

PART AE
CHORUS
PART BL
PART CH
BREAK
18 groovesS20ACBAECH+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Revelations 13-1 (Beast)?

160 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Revelations 13-1 (Beast) hard to play on drums?

46 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

254 bars, about 7:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 26 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Revelations 13-1 (Beast)?

15 fills to learn, played 63 times: bars 18, 20, 21, 24, 29, 49 and 57 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 254 BARS ANALYSED
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