Ride of the Valkyries · Brothers Of Metal

123 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 27% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 25 and 44-46, and 13 more places -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 145 BPM
RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 19 more.

LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 145 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31

12 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

123 bars across 10 sections: 68 keep time, 25 are fills, 16 are stops and 5 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-120.

PART E
PART G
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
7 groovesIGEHA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ride of the Valkyries?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Ride of the Valkyries hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ride of the Valkyries?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 4, 8, 18, 26, 30, 33 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED
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