Said the King to the River · La Dispute

175 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:09 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Metalcore / HardcoreAlternative / Indie150 BPM and upBeginner
TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 28, 29 and 42 more.

LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 160 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

175 bars across 17 sections: 101 keep time, 48 are fills, 8 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 55-77.

PART C
CHORUS
PART AF
PART AT
PART AQ
OUTRO
14 groovesXAFAQCAT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Said the King to the River?

160 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 Said the King to the River hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Said the King to the River?

20 fills to learn, played 48 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 28, 29 and 42 more.

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