Sharpen The Blades · Daath

215 bars at 260 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

MetalRock150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
260 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
76/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 12% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 30-34 and 70-74, and 3 more places -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 260 BPM
SHARPEN THE BLADES · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 29, 37, 60, 61, 69, 77 and 15 more.

LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BARS 60-61 · LANDS ON BAR 62 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 260 BPM
BAR 69 · LANDS ON BAR 70

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

215 bars across 20 sections: 143 keep time, 21 are fills, 25 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 94-108.

PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AR
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLCAJAHT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sharpen The Blades?

260 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Sharpen The Blades hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Sharpen The Blades?

12 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 29, 37, 60, 61, 69, 77 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED
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