Shadow of the Mithril Mountains · Dragonland

191 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 9:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
9:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 34% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-9, 11-15 and 31, and 10 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 80 BPM
SHADOW OF THE MITHRIL MOUNTAINS · BAR 42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.

LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 80 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 80 BPM
BARS 32-37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 6 TIMES

16 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

191 bars across 14 sections: 114 keep time, 35 are fills, 8 are stops and 19 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 150-160.

CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART V
CHORUS 3
PART S12
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCAKS12TH+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadow of the Mithril Mountains?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Shadow of the Mithril Mountains 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 9:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Shadow of the Mithril Mountains?

20 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 10, 20, 24, 32, 33, 34 and 29 more.

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