Sanctus Dominus · Powerwolf

120 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13 and 33-37, and 11 more places -- 42.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
SANCTUS DOMINUS · BAR 33
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 14, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 80 · LANDS ON BAR 81
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 84 · LANDS ON BAR 85

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

120 bars across 12 sections: 84 keep time, 10 are fills, 13 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-52.

PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART X
OUTRO
9 groovesFITOA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sanctus Dominus?

140 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 Sanctus Dominus hard to play on drums?

45 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sanctus Dominus?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 14, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED
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