Revolution Deathsquad · Dragonforce

395 bars at 240 BPM -- fast, and 6:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
240 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
395
LENGTH
6:35
DIFFICULTY
84/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 16 and 20, and 21 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 240 BPM
REVOLUTION DEATHSQUAD · BAR 49
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 27 and 89 more.

LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 24-25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 240 BPM
BARS 27-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

25 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

395 bars across 34 sections: 231 keep time, 97 are fills, 26 are stops and 11 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 278-303.

CHORUS 7
PART AM
PART AU
PART O
CHORUS 8
OUTRO
14 groovesHOAEAMG+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Revolution Deathsquad?

240 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Revolution Deathsquad hard to play on drums?

84 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

395 bars, about 6:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 84 exercises over 23 sittings, about 27 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 Revolution Deathsquad?

29 fills to learn, played 95 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 24, 25, 27 and 89 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 395 BARS ANALYSED
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