Ritual · Blasphemy

134 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:39 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metal150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
90/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 32% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-36, 41-48 and 72-79, and 12 more places -- 32.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 200 BPM
RITUAL · BARS 29-30
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 133 and 134.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2
LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 133-134 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

134 bars across 12 sections: 107 keep time, 3 are fills and 9 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-132.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesGCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Ritual?

200 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 Ritual hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Ritual?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 1, 133 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED
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