Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom · Dissection

128 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
62/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 22% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 48-54, 56-61 and 82-88, and 1 more place -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 105 BPM
SHADOWS OVER A LOST KINGDOM · BAR 48
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 26, 40, 42 and 17 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 11 · LANDS ON BAR 12
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 14 sections: 73 keep time, 25 are fills, 12 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-10.

PART B
PART B
PART W
CHORUS
PART AP
CHORUS 2
PART AX
PART AP
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAEBAPWAX+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom?

105 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 Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 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 Shadows Over A Lost Kingdom?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 11, 13, 15, 26, 40, 42 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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