Shadow From Mordor · Sacrilege

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 57% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 43-45, and 39 more places -- 57.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SHADOW FROM MORDOR · BAR 36
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 86, 126, 138, 190, 194 and 1 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 86 · LANDS ON BAR 87 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 138 · LANDS ON BAR 139
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 202
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 15 sections: 177 keep time, 8 are fills, 4 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 34-80.

PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFDCEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow From Mordor?

180 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 Shadow From Mordor hard to play on drums?

57 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 Shadow From Mordor?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 86, 126, 138, 190, 194 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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