Royal Beggars · Architects

168 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
41/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-11, and 12 more places -- 60.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 178 BPM
ROYAL BEGGARS · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 48, 64, 72 and 4 more.

LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 178 BPM
BAR 88 · LANDS ON BAR 89

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

168 bars across 7 sections: 31 keep time, 10 are fills, 92 are stops and 32 are silent.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAS5DBG+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Royal Beggars?

178 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 Royal Beggars hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Royal Beggars?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 48, 64, 72 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED
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